The Lighter Side of JzB

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Every day visits*
From Moose, Goose, and Orb Weaver
All seized by Haiku


"Why moose and goose?" you may ask. Back on 2/04/13 Pirate wrote a haiku with an elk in it, and I responded with
one with a moose and then included him every day. A few days later in comments Mystic asked "Where's the goose?"
So I started including her with this post on 2/07. A week later on the 14th, Mark Readfern
asked for and received a spider. The rest is history.

*Well, most days, anyway. Grant me a bit of poetic license.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Carpe Diem's Distillation #2, A poem by Genji, from the wellknown Japanese novel "The Tale of Genji"

After the funeral of Yuugao, Genji is looking at the smoke from the pyre, and recites this poem:
 

mishi hito no
keburi o kumo to
nagamureba
yuube no sora mo
mutsumashiki ka na

The evening sky itself
becomes something to cherish
when I gaze at it,
seeing in one of the clouds
the smoke from her funeral pyre
  

My distillations

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reduced to ashes
the body of one i loved
her soul takes the sky


\""/

at the nexus of
the passions of love and hate
a funeral pyre

\""/

I'm also reminded of this extraordinarily intense scene - the final moments of the first season of Game of Thrones.




from drogo's pyre
she emerges not alone
mother of dragons



\""/

 

Carpe Diem's Distillation #2

9 comments:

  1. cable doesn't get any better than this! Love me some dragon babies...

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  2. Oh Wow :)
    The last one got to me most.

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  3. love the first one... really well distilled.

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  4. Nice distillation JzB ... wonderful haiku and IN like that Game of Thrones take a lot.

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  5. Excellent distillations, and what a treat to see that scene from GoT again.

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  6. Great distillations on a subject morbid in nature. Nicely JzB

    Hank

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  7. such talent! wow - love your offering.

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