juxtaposition

Carpe Diem Time Glass #34, "juxtaposition"

Credits: Snow Mountain

snowy mountain peaks

melting, follow gravity

old folks nude beach

©  petra domina

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a summer mountain

Carpe Diem #734 a summer mountain

The inspirational post has so much information.  You are really encouraged to visit and read the entire post by clicking here.

The much needed rains have taken a day off here at our home.  The break in the rains allow the opportunity to do a couple of chores on the little patio.  The wooden clogs purchased sixteen summers ago are rehung for display.  Looking a little worse for wear these days but still great to bring back good memories.  Vines are trimmed back from the smoker, Buddha and angel.  With the lack of rain in previous years, the landscaping has a few bare areas.  With the help of the worms composting our kitchen waste there is good soil to add to the bare spots.  Some seeds, a little moisture and a summer garden may be born.  



clop clop echoes
from the passing wayfarer
a bow and nod

©  Janice Adcock





A portion of the inspiration post:

Of course it wasn't easy to walk on these tengu ("one barred" wooden clogs) certainly not in the mountains, but En no Goja used them always. So it's not a strange idea that Basho prays to the wooden clogs, the tengu (one barred), because he needed the strength for his journey.

natsu yama ni ashida o ogamu kadode kana

a summer mountain
I pray to the wooden clogs
at departure


© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) 

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soaking wet

Carpe Diem Special #138: Santoka Taneda’s “Soaking Wet”

walking on the mountain
clouds roll in giving chase!
soaking wet descent

©  Janice Adcock

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castle

Carpe Diem #577, 

Castle 

(February 2013)

the mountains for spires

cliffs as walls, seas for moats

kami castles

©  Janice Adcock

©  Janice Adcock

©  Janice Adcock

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Purple Shadow

Carpe Diem Soliloquy No Renga (an introduction), 

"purple shadow"

Inspiration post by Kristjaan Panneman:

blue autumn skies
folded into mountains
purple shadow

© Jane Reichhold

The goal of this new feature is to write a Soliloquy No Renga, a Renga composed by one person. With this new feature it is possible to help you to be more associative, because you have to compose an all new renga with at least six (6) links.

As you all know a renga has stanzas of three and two lines. The first verse "hokku" gives the title to the renga and sets the entire image of your renga. By association on the verse before the verse you have to write you can make the renga a complete story.
This new feature is just for fun and I hope it will bring you the fun and inspiration as I had in mind. You can choose on your own how much links you use, but at least (as I said above) six (6) links. The last link has to make the "circle complete" and in that way has a link with the first verse. That last verse is called "ageku".

So you have to start with this opening-verse or "hokku" and in your closing-verse or "ageku" there has to be a link or association back to this "hokku". Why? Well ... it's because of aesthetic reasons ... by linking or associating from the "ageku" to the "hokku" you make the "circle" complete.

blue autumn skies
folded into mountains
purple shadow                       © Jane Reichhold

mossy rock rests in shadows

green softly creeping along

crisp breeze startles

squinting eyes - tingling skin 
hands seeking in vain

softly embraced Mother Earth

little comfort to senses

brilliantly flashing
stars swirling surround -

blue moon dust sprinkles

dragonflies lingering gaze

panda nibbles bamboo shoot

scolding jay bullies

red crested cardinal gives chase

whirl of red and blue

small stream blue reflections

single red feather floats by

ugly rat scrounges 

hummingbirds sip nectar

prayers rise like mist

hours fill the long day

an instant seems like hours

red drops fall on rocks

mingling with blue moon dust

ego bruised -

snow-capped mountains stand watch

over purple twilight shade

©  Janice Adcock

See more of this challenge and other poets responses here.