azaleas...

Katsushika Hokusai - Cuckoo and Azaleas (Hototogisu, satsuki), 1834
from an untitled series known as Small Flowers.
It is held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


bitter cuckoo cries
azaleas wake in
sweet blood


NOTE
Long ago, the king of the ancient Shu Kingdom, Du Yu, transmigrated into a cuckoo after he was assassinated.
The bird always sang bitterly, and it did not stop until blood came out from its bill.
Each April, when the air is full of cuckoo cries, azaleas are in blossom like flames.
According to folklore, the cuckoo's blood dyes the azalea flower red.
MORE details on the azalea HERE


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art/artists...

A tea towel re-production of an old map.
(Thanks to my neighbour's washing line).
It represents Sullivan's Cove, Old Hobart Town Tasmania
by the Colonial Architect John Lee Archer (1791-1852).
Among the buildings designed by Archer are Parliament House, (formerly the Customs House), the public offices used by the Treasury and the Audit Department in Hobart, the Ordnance Stores in Salamanca Place, several buildings at Anglesea Barracks; St John's Church with the orphan schools and the parsonage at New Town; the nave of St George's Church at Battery Point; Old Trinity (the Penitentiary Chapel) in Hobart; St Luke's Presbyterian Church at Bothwell, St Luke's Church of England at Richmond, the gaol and gaoler's house at Richmond, and parts of the gaol in Campbell Street, Hobart. In the engineering field his outstanding work was the stone bridge which still carries the Midland Highway over the Macquarie River at Ross.
- extract from Australian Dictionary of Biography


tea towel
historical art 
echoes in the winds

the past
washed and pegged
re-vitalised




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National Haiku Writing Month - Facebook prompts - art/artists

abyss...

summer rains
long ago horizons found
angels


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National Haiku Writing Month - Facebook prompts - abyss

ascension...

summer puffed clouds 
river of morning 
in flight


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National Haiku Writing Month - Facebook prompts - ascension

expectation...

may the snows be light
may your sails unfurl softly
and love the breezes


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Haiku Heights - expectation

Awake in a Dream

Relaxing Fantasy Music
  


dream gods
play me a song of sweet bells
to soothe my seasons


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Carpe Diem - Awake in a Dream

Spirits of the Wild

Adrian Von Ziegler - Spirits of the Wild


may haunting flutes
charm the light of
a forest morning

let me feel
the presence of
the sacred earth


spirits of the wild
bless
my hungry soul


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Carpe Diem - Spirits of the Wild