Moments in time....

"Be careful not to break my

       flowering tree!"

He warned; and broke a branch

       of plum for me.

                                - Taigi

 

 

Up comes the bucket from

      the well of gloom,

And in it floats----a pink

      camellia bloom.

                               - Kakei

 

 

Onto the ashes where my

      cottage  burned,

The cherry blossoms scatter,

      unconcerned.

                             -Hokushi 

 

 

                              

The wild geese fly across the long sky above.

Their image is reflected upon the chilly water below.

The geese do not mean to cast their image on the water;

Nor does the water mean to hold the image of the geese.