Tanka...Cedar Forest in Spring-a2019m


深碧の闇を投ずる杉山に春光さして先のきはめむ

cedar forests
casting shadows of dark green
spring light
makes their fine edge
reach the sky

©2019Rika Inami

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Three tankas for the first anniversary of my friend’s death / 亡き友の１周忌に３首　20190314a

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君逝きて早も一年 ( ひととせ ) シンビジウム残雪を背に今日も咲きたり one year has already passed since you left this world -- against the remaining snow cymbidium blooming today too This photo is from my friend.     岩山を渡 ( と ) し空に舞ふ鳥を追ひ目指す峰までなほ如何ほどや walking the rocky mountain chasing birds flying in the sky … how far is it still to the mountain-top your goal? ねがはくは今日聴く鳥は白鳥にあれ君に添ひ吾 ( あ ) も聴かるるに I hope the birds you hear today are swans … I can also hear them accompanying you ※      晩秋にシベリアから飛来した白鳥が帰還する季節になりました。この頃、 頭上で白鳥が啼く声をよく耳にします。 It is the season that swans which came flying from Siberia in late autumn return.  These days, I often hear their whooping call. All rights reserved © 2019Rika Inami 稲美 里佳 ----------------------- friends depart  leaving  memories  behind ... can  love be measured  by the years that pass ©Ashoka Weerakkody ...
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My Favorite Tanka...Shojin Zen 精進膳

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春彼岸 精進膳をそなへむか先祖に一つ無縁に一つ offering  shoujin-zens  during vernal equinox week -- one is  to my ancestors' spirits the other is to the deserted's  ※ "The neglected" is the spirit who has no living relatives. ©Rika Inami 稲美里佳 この歌は以前お盆の歌の初句を変えて春彼岸にしました。 It is Spring Equinox Week March 18 to 24, which is one of the most important events for Japanese Buddhists. I have to offer some special foods including Shojin Cooking to my dead ancestors in this term. In brief, Shojin Cooking is Zen Cooking. The photo is Shojin Cooking for the beginning of the equinox week on 18th. March .
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