Sunday, 22 January 2012

Bashô: snow-viewing

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Cat dancing in snow, Tscherno: photo by Matthias Zirngibl, 26 February 2006



....Now then!
Let's go snow-viewing, --
....Till we tumble down!





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Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) with cub, Buffalo Zoo: photo by Dave Pape, 2008

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Irish Setter in a snowstorm, northeastern Pennsylvania: photo by Wb6772, 19 December 2008
Now then!: Bashô (1644-1694), translated by R. H. Blyth in Haiku, Vol. IV (Autumn-Winter), 1951
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10 comments:

  1. ACravan22 January 2012 at 10:22

    These (haiku and photos) are lovely. We had a light but manageable snowfall here. While the dogs dislike hard, icy terrain, snow excites them and makes them act like happy children. Seeing miniature dachshunds attack snowpiles equal to or greater to their own height is extremely uplifing. Now the snow needs to go away Immediately. Curtis

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  2. Nin Andrews22 January 2012 at 10:56

    I love the cat photo! And I was thinking of posting Pound's snow song. Perhaps tomorrow, when the stupid rain comes to muck it up, I will do so, but for today, it's beautiful--the snow, the sun, the blue sky, only my eyes are burning from the glare.

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  3. STEPHEN RATCLIFFE22 January 2012 at 11:02

    Tom,

    Nice, maybe we can go rain-viewing out here again today, "Till we tumble down". . .

    1.22

    light coming into clouds above shadowed
    green ridge, blue jay landing on feeder
    in foreground, sound of wave in channel

    which in the center, visual
    blue of glass balance

    through that, words suggest,
    showing as in thought

    shadowed grey sky reflected in channel,
    gulls circling against canyon of ridge

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  4. Issa's Untidy Hut22 January 2012 at 11:45

    Thanks, Tom ... beautiful, all around.

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  5. vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)23 January 2012 at 00:10

    let it

    snow, let it
    snow

    let it snow bash
    show! :)

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  6. TC23 January 2012 at 04:10

    O how I would prefer a blanket of soft white snow to these relentless waves and sheets of rain we're having here right now!

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  7. Issa's Untidy Hut23 January 2012 at 04:21

    Yes, Tom, we too are back to all rain and that comforting snow is rapidly disappearing ... such a mild winter out this way!

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  8. pat n23 January 2012 at 08:06

    Tom,
    Thanks for the Basho haiku & beautiful photos.
    A snow-lover myself.... joy filled.

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  9. TC23 January 2012 at 17:56

    Don, Pat, many thanks.

    Snow, mildness, Bashô -- yes to all those.

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  10. Robb24 January 2012 at 07:00

    Finally got our first real snow in the city and I felt quite like I imagine cat in the first photo felt.

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