What would you call this? A collaboration, a joint endeavor, a linked project?
My friend Judy Mosher had a fun idea. We took a sheet of paper and started drawing and painting from different ends. Then we each added a haiku.
as threads unravel
I can’t find
my mittens
and
dropping
ink from brush
the mind
Now that we’ve looked at it, we think we might add another visual layer.
New Year’s surprise
cabbage white butterfly
flies through our house whence?
The amazing story is that several years ago, when I examined a full-in-bloom amaryllis, I discovered a cabbage white butterfly in its center.
Today we have a blooming amaryllis, and at the same time, the same species butterfly (female).
Whence and how and why are the questions.
the famous view
covered in fog–
still, selfie sticks
Isabel Winson-Sagan and I collaborated for a week last October at Wildacres in North Carolina. She’s been working hard to get text and image to combine harmoniously as part of a book project. I love what she is coming up with.
Please click to enlarge.
Every so often my blog does something odd–like show this piece from 2010 as having the most visitors yesterday. Nice to see this glass fish by Hiroshi Yamano.
.
circling around
like the old year
upon the new…
a golden splash
of sunset
Mary Kendall
Fish skims air-water
amber clear light along gills
sun sparkles bubbles
Alicia Marie Rencountre-Da Silva
Anyone else want to add a haiku or short poem?
Vallecitos, New Mexico 12.12.15
Photograph by Hope Atterbury
before snow
burning the fields—
Taos mountain
dusk
behind white curtains.
piñon smoke
in the mirror
a glimpse
of emptiness
knitting,
my thoughts
unravel the past
an old story
the river wears the canyon
down
dream tossed
in rumpled
sheets
dawn
of the shortest days
still streaks pink
the lake is slowly
lost in mist…
evening falls
Issa
trans. by David G. Lanoue
More haiku for today at: http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com
dawn kora
cold bricks
worn smooth
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Michael G. Smith is touring Nepal and doing volunteer work. The Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu is the most revered Buddhist site in Nepal, especially for Tibetan Buddhists. The stupa’s iconic spire was heavily damaged in the April 2015 earthquake and is being re-built. Buddhist practitioners from all over the world come to circumambulate the stupa in a practice called kora. Practitioners can be found walking twenty-four hours a day. At 5 AM in the morning Michael would be walking kora with hundreds of others.
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