"life in this world just like a temporary shelter from a winter shower" ― Sogi (tr. Makoto Ueda) (image: Hasui Kawase)

Julia Pärnänen - Trees in the dark

"at the crescent moon the silence enters the heart" ― Chiyo-ni (trans. Donegan & Ishibashi) (image: Mikiko Noji)

the consolations of insomnia

inviting you to read my mystical poem "Amulet" in Lothlorien Poetry Journal. with thanks to editor @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/one-...

'Can't get that tune out of my head,' can't get that tree out of some place in me. And don't want to Denise Levertov, An Ancient Tree

"I wake snow falls, not that I'm lonely" Santoka [image: Snowy morning, Settai Komura]

Käffchen?

autumn leaves

"don't cry, geese! your inn is wherever the autumn moon shines" Issa Kobayashi (image: Bairei Kono)

Scenes from my childhood...

"Kyoto -- falling straight down the first winter rain" Issa Kobayashi (image: rain in Kiyomizu temple, Takeji Asano)

"Hello, darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again" Paul Simon (image: Rokuro Taniuchi)

"Hide and seek Count to three Winter comes" Shuji Terayama [7th of Nov. 2025 = 立冬(rittou), the beginning of the winter (images: Kiyokata Kaburagi / Yumeji Takehisa)

"Rabbit, Rabbit, What are you looking at as you jump? I am looking at the full moon." ― folk song for children in Japan (image: Rokuro Taniuchi)

'In the misfit mystic space of grace, comrades, it is mercy, and mercy alone, that transforms human hearts.'

"November always seemed to me the Norway of the year." Emily Dickinson’s Norway theparisreview.org/blog/2014/11... (image: Zdzislaw Beksinski)

Guten Morgen an Allerseelen! Je älter man wird, desto mehr Menschen gibt es, an die man sich nur noch erinnern kann ...

"Morning sparrows, Their voices say the snow's arrived In the distant mountain" Seisensui Ogiwara (image: Rokuro Taniuchi)

"Happy things, Sad things also, The weeds grow abundantly." Santoka (image: Hoitsu Sakai)

farm stand cat atop a tall bale of hay the height of apathy #31daysofhalloween #senryu #halloween #spooktober #haiku

a crescendo

Autumn leaves

This is why you do the reading.

"Here is a man thoroughly solitary ― a shadow of oblivion drifting one place to another, flowing on and on" Bokusui Wakayama (images: Hasui Kawase / Koson Ohara )

Cathedral yellow

"in the owl's opinion every day is long" Issa Kobayashi (images: Mikiko Noji / Hiroshige)

trip to the smoke & took in Andy Goldsworthy 50 year exhibition - so strange & provoking to find the familiar - barbed wire & fallen oak - indoors, & movements of sheep around salt-lick rendering winter sun

fantastic!

Guten Morgen aus Augsburg! Und einfach nur: Große Herbstliebe hier.

"cultivated chrysanthemums wither first" Issa Kobayashi (image: Kiyokata Kaburagi)

wow! fabulous

"With age Even the voice of the cricket Is sad" Buson Yosa (image: Zeshin Shibata)

"even holy Jizo is looking older... fallen leaves" Issa Kobayashi [Jizo = the guardian deity of children]

"Whenever I speak My lips are Chilled ― Autumn wind." ― Basho Matsuo (image: Settai Komura)

"green leaves or fallen leaves become one -- in the flowering snow" Chiyo-ni (images: Kaii Higashiyama)

beautiful

"Upon the maple leaves The dew shines red, But on the lotus blossom It has the pale transparence of tears." Amy Lowell (images: Hoitsu Sakai / Koson Ohara)

Today was cold, with a little snow. On this Thanksgiving weekend I am grateful for the seasonal burst of colour—it will be gone too soon.

"Going to ruin, bit by bit: my autumn." Santoka (image: Shotei Takahashi)

bamboo grove

"moon-viewing -- after coming home nothing to say" Chiyo-ni (image: Shufu Miyamoto)

& you find fullmoon eventually - cowl of cloud streaming off - slanting fast into dark

Buona notte... sogni d'oro...

"In this dream world we doze and talk of dreams - dream, dream on, as much as you wish" Ryokan [image: Shoen Uemura]

'Cake' by Wayne Thibaud

"The moon in the water; Broken and broken again, Still it is there" Choshu (trans. R.H.Blyth) (moonlit night, Hasui Kawase)