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Tag Archives: temple
Portrait
When I watched my mother brush her hair, it made a scraping electric sound: vibrating plastic teeth sinking repeatedly into a fuzzy animal. I loved watching my mother brush her hair. I’d make sure to always stand behind her, so … Continue reading
Faces
Symmetry, like water, finds its own level, enabled by many nodes of manifest grace, from cheerful stone to worn velveteen faith.
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Tagged buddhas, cemetery, faith, japan, jizo, plots, poem, portrait, rabbit, sado island, shrine, temple
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Gateway
From the series, Japan Poems. In the world’s undiminished constancy of portals and gateways metamorphosis can truly be yours at every turn and step taken in radically engaged increments of dreamscaping anew.
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Tagged dreamscape, gateway, japan, poem, portal, sado island, shrine, temple
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Kites
From the series, Japan Poems. In the cloud-papered volume of unending sky a pair of kites assume the pensive arc of commas giving due pause to the founting gulf of silence and daybreak.
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Tagged clouds, kites, poem, sado island, shrine, sky, temple, twilight
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Fountain
From the series, Japan Poems. Water need not praise– its small gods reside in flow through the end of days.
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Tagged kimono girls, kyoto, poem, Poetry, portrait, sacred, temple, water
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Where We Are Not
From the series, Japan Poems A turned head beckons the promise of faraway– Lie again, softly.
Forgotten Temple
From the series, Japan Poems. Moss-carpeted stone steps leading up to the forgotten temple, fewer and fewer guests paying their respects to these hallowed grounds, a song of stately decay, of bones and overgrown grass, a rusted bell tolling absence … Continue reading
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Tagged forgotten temple, into the woods, niigata, photography, poem, portrait of a temple, quiet life, sado island, shrine, temple
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