Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #68 Tan Renga with Jane Reichhold
asks us to complete each of the three haiku by (© Jane Reichhold ~ in blue)
to create a tanka chain (of three).
a certain calm
in summer’s passing
flowers
an open invitation
passing butterfly answers
flat seas
with the butterfly’s flight
a certain calm
motion of butterfly’s wings
the breeze that stills the water
the hour silent
before the birds awake
waves on sand
touched by all that surrounds us
lapping waves a reminder
Image source: Museum of Fine Arts Boston – Butterflies, by Utagawa Hiroshige
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This picture compliments the words so well.
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🙂 Thank you.
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Fabulous! (@–>—)
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Thanks!
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“the breeze that stills the water”–so evocative. (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe. I was very pleased with that line.
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I’ve been lucky to be inside living butterfly collections – They are mesmerizing.
One location in Aruba had two different koi ponds.
A delightful reminder of what may come this spring when the ‘butterfly’ bush awakens.
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You are so good at this! I particularly like: “motion of butterfly’s wings
the breeze that stills the water”
Wonderful image, too!
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Thank you! I had fun with that shot. I think the finch on the left is flying backwards (taking off from the feeder). That was the third of three shots taken within a second, and the bird was the farthest away from the feeder in that one.
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