Wednesday, May 27, 2015

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the front gate -
drawn to golden clouds
setting sun
© gillena cox






I am blog hopping today at

Carpe Diem Special #148, Kikaku's "above the sea"

...Kikaku has almost the same attraction to the beauty of nature as Basho had and he (Kikaku) has written wonderful haiku. Later in his life Kikaku fell in love with the city and his haiku changed dramatically, but were all beauties. Here are two haiku written by Kikaku to inspire you all.

this wooden gate
shuts me out for the night
winter moon
© Kikaku (Tr. Michael K. Bourdaghs)


finally home
I shut the gate of my garden
ah! the Honeysuckle
© Chèvrefeuille

11 comments:

Magyar said...

OK. _m

Magical Mystical Teacher said...

Not even a gate can resist the drawing of the sun!

Gillena Cox said...

Happy you dropped in Magyar

Much love...

Gillena Cox said...

Happy you dropped in Maggie

Much love...

Unknown said...

That is a beautiful scene.

Gillena Cox said...

Thanks Hamish
Much love...

Blog It Or Lose It said...

How wonderful to hear your voice, Gillena!
Loved your haiku :)

Unknown said...

Nice ... very very nice! Bastet

rose AKA Walk in the Woods - she/her said...

Lovely. Truly. :)

Gillena Cox said...

Happy you dropped in Georgia

much love...

Gillena Cox said...

Thanks for dropping in Rose

much love...