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this moment,
a pearl between empty fingers-
Storm Moon
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The flickering tongues of sharp darknesses and fragmenting firelight, trailing off into the vast bat country of Earth's big shadow.
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foggy pond,
a frog leaps in. . .
somewhere
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(Kobayashi Issa Museum)
Deck of Clooney's Trawler
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an abandoned aquarium
in the nettles
a butterfly
L1 and L3 flap their wings loosely, without a dash-pivot? (For some reason), it seems the transmogrification into redemption of a guppy. ◠‿◠
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part of a wall
of rubble stone then-
cabbage white!
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their life
in a farmer's field-
barley seeds
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lashed by fresh wintery storms-
maybe it's spring
on the moon!
I went for the Issa (hysterical) solution! Could be a question - to calm the storm vibe down? Or, a dour/drole (stoic) absence of emotion (zombie). Take your pick folks. . . (What do members preference for emoting L3?) Thanks for your thoughtful input, JC. How's the visualisation aspect of this ku, though - what is spring like on the big bouncy castle of Earth's closest neighbour?
jp
TIP OF THE MOMENT
The ethos of ku is like a Japanese ink landscape - much is left out to encourage audience participation. The audience (as co-creative participant) fills in the gaps - ideally, employing intuition over logic.
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finishing each other's songs-
two invisible lovers
in a tree
M N E M O N I C
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Basho is mystic
Buson is artist
Issa is humanist
Shiki is realist
Chiyo-ni is included
jp
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"People come in one end and meat goes out the other, we turn the handle." - Rogue Judge Alvarez, executed by Judge Dredd in 'Dredd 3D', released 2012
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in the zoom-wind
a spring coffin dodger
wings it
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a few plant folk
blowing at the clouds
spring cities
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"I'd like to be thrown to the lions," the little girl said (when asked what they should do with her body when she died).
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March storm-
in the North Atlantic
lightening unseen
That's the current moon phase up there. "Storm Moon" - an apt optional title for conditions on the ground here (and, no doubt, much worse at sea).
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lengthening days. . .
on the street more glances
in mirrors
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winding up a hillside
behind the farmer's lambs-
line of cars
"Tales of spectral figures lined up at shops where now there is only rubble are what psychiatrists say is a reaction to fear after the March 11, 2011, disaster in which nearly 19,000 people were killed." Yahoo! News
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Good-Fortune Island. . .
they say the statues are haunted,
perchance to
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step-by-step
tying the room together-
Moon of Storms
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thin, sick and stupid?
not the neighbor's cat-
moonlit nests
HAPPY EASTER
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This is the earliest known American depicition of the Easter Bunny. This delightful image is attributed to Gilbert, a schoolmaster who emigrated from Germany in 1757 and ultimately settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He likely made the drawing as a gift for one of his students.
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"Males want to be devoting their time to singing in order to claim and defend their territories, while females want to be feeding up to gain enough nutrients to lay their eggs." - British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)
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in understated ensembles
tubby lady sparrows
egg on the boys
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cold snap-
the Easter ice cream man
dreams on
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