“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”- Percy B. Shelley
Pink magnolias and the blue sky 💙 picture of the best of Springs
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”- Percy B. Shelley
Pink magnolias and the blue sky 💙 picture of the best of Springs
Hokku Poems In Four Seasons
By Yosa Buson
The year’s first poem done,
with smug self confidence
a haikai poet.
Longer has become the daytime;
a pheasant is fluttering
down onto the bridge.
Yearning for the Bygones
Lengthening days,
accumulating, and recalling
the days of distant past.
Slowly passing days,
with an echo heard here in a
corner of Kyoto.
The white elbow
of a priest, dozing,
in the dusk of spring.
Into a nobleman,
a fox has changed himself
early evening of spring.
The light on a candle stand
is transferred to another candle
spring twilight.
A short nap,
then awakening
this spring day has darkened.
Who is it for,
this pillow on the floor,
in the twilight of spring?
The big gateway’s heavy doors,
standing in the dusk of spring.
Hazy moonlight —
someone is standing
among the pear trees.
Blossoms on the pear tree,
lighten by the moonlight, and there
a woman is reading a letter.
Springtime rain — almost dark,
and yet today still lingers.
Springtime rain —
a little shell on a small beach,
enough to moisten it.
Springtime rain is falling,
as a child’s rag ball is soaking
wet on the house roof.
Art – Kawase Hasui Evening Glow in Spring Toshogu Shrine
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
– Pablo Neruda
Photos by me taken in the Herăstrău park, Bucharest.
When you catch a dream, you run after another in continuation of the first.
For you, Spring has built so much Love as to fill the sky with blue and the gardens with happy green.
I bid you to live the new days to the full and catch all your dreams in the most beautiful spring of your life!
Iulia Halatz
Art – Peder Mork Mønsted (Danish painter, 1859 – 1949)
When you catch a dream, you run after another in continuation of the first.
For you, Spring has built so much Love as to fill the sky with blue and the gardens with happy green.
I bid you to live the new days to the full and catch all your dreams in the most beautiful spring of your life!
Iulia Halatz
Hiroshi Yoshida – Kumoi Cherry Trees, 1920