The name origin of Pelkum can be derived from the two syllables: the Old Saxon "Pel" means pole or palisade. "Kum" can be translated with home or homestead, which is also indicated by the old name "Pilicheim."

The first settlements over 1000 years ago were probably surrounded by trees or wooden stakes.

In Pelkum there is a memorial plaque and an honorary grave for those killed in the fighting of the Red Ruhr Army. It is said that the most violent battles took place there in 1920.

Pelkum was part of the Pelkum office in Hamm County when the offices were established in the Prussian Province of Westphalia. On the occasion of the outcropping of the city of Hamm on April 1, 1901, the district of Hamm was formed. After an expansion in 1929, it was renamed Unna County in October 1930.

Weak earthquakes regularly occur in the area of the Sundernrücken mountain range. On 14 January 2021 such an earthquake (magnitude 1.7 on the Richter scale) killed a goat in terror.

tried to figure out if this shade of purple was lilac or lavender...and if you spell lavender with an e or an a in the last syllable. what's more, i have not figured out how to adjust the color on this laptop, so who knows what the heck you are seeing... and furthermore, you may be color blind or i may be! sheesh. feel free to weigh in. for my education and insight! naming images can be stressful! :))

orange beaks approaching

rippled water of the lake

proud Canada geese

I found a book of delightful haiku among secondhand books for sale in a local village hall. I decided to have a try myself.

for Sliders Sunday

editing with FastStone and iPiccy

n.b. I have discovered that these are Greylag geese but I'll leave Canada in my very first haiku otherwise the syllables will be messed up!!!

Steamed up bus window.

Delicate watercolour,

of bare trees, car lights.

(*A haiku is a traditional Japanese form of short poetry, with just three sentences - five, seven and five syllable length).

Inspired by the early morning rush hour traffic on Alderman's Hill, as seen from the upper deck of the 121 bus.

In photography, bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image. Bokeh has also been defined as the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light. Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause very different bokeh effects. Some lens designs blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce distracting or unpleasant blurring (good and bokeh, respectively). Photographers may deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions, accentuating their lens's bokeh.

Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all regions of an image which are outside the depth of field.

The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means blur or haze, or boke-aji (ボケ味), the blur quality. This is derived as a noun form of the verb bokeru, which is written in several ways, with additional meanings and nuances: 暈ける refers to being blurry, hazy or out-of-focus, whereas the 惚ける and 呆ける spellings refer to being mentally hazy, befuddled, childish, senile, or playing stupid. Jisaboke (時差ボケ) (literally, time difference fog) is the term for jet lag. Nebokeru (寝ぼける ) is a verb denoting the actions or condition of someone who is half-asleep, or nodding off. Tobokeru means playing dumb, and toboketa kao refers to a poker face. The related term bokashi (暈かし) means intentional blurring or gradation; that is a noun form of the transitive verb bokasu 暈す which means to make something blurry, rather than to be blurry.

The English spelling bokeh was popularized in 1997 in Photo Techniques magazine, when Mike Johnston, the editor at the time, commissioned three papers on the topic for the May/June 1997 issue; he altered the spelling to suggest the correct pronunciation to English speakers, saying it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable. The spellings bokeh and boke have both been in use since at least 1996, when Merklinger had suggested or Bokeh if you prefer. The term bokeh has appeared in photography books as early as 1998. It is sometimes pronounced /ˈboʊkə/ BOH-kə.

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The killdeer is a large plover found in the Americas. It gets its name from its shrill, two-syllable call, which is often heard. It was described and given its current scientific name in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae. Three subspecies are described. Wikipedia

Why do they call them killdeer?

Killdeer Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Killdeer get their name from the shrill, wailing kill-deer call they give so often. Eighteenth-century naturalists also noticed how noisy Killdeer are, giving them names such as the Chattering Plover and the Noisy Plover. Gravel rooftops attract Killdeer for nesting, but can be dangerous places to raise a brood.

Thanks to everyone that views and comments on my images - very much appreciated.

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The Bewick’s Wren

If you come across a noisy, hyperactive little bird with bold white eyebrows, flicking its long tail as it hops from branch to branch, you may have spotted a Bewick’s Wren.

These master vocalists belt out a string of short whistles, warbles, burrs, and trills to attract mates and defend their territory, or scold visitors with raspy calls. Bewick’s Wrens are still fairly common in much of western North America, but they have virtually disappeared from the East.

The severe declines of Bewick's Wren in the eastern United States coincided with range expansion in the House Wren. It is suspected that the House Wren, which frequently removes eggs from nests in cavities, was directly responsible for the decline. The increased availability of nest boxes may have helped the spread of the House Wren, and therefore the decline of the Bewick's Wren.

Courting Bewick’s Wrens normally form monogamous pairs. While they’re setting up house and even after the female has begun incubating eggs, the male and female often forage together. This may help the male prevent his partner from mating with another bird.

A young male Bewick’s Wren learns to sing from neighboring adult males while he is coming of age in his parents’ territory. The songs he develops differ from his father’s, with a note changed here, a syllable there. The melodious signature he acquires between the ages of about 30 and 60 days will be his for life.

A Bewick’s Wren’s life starts off perilously. House Wrens may eject eggs from its nest; both eggs and nestlings can become lunch for rat snakes and milk snakes, and domestic cats go after nestlings. Adulthood isn’t safe either: mature birds can fall prey to roadrunners, rattlesnakes, or hawks.

The oldest recorded Bewick's Wren was at least 8 years old when it was recaptured and rereleased during banding operations in California in 1986. It was banded in the same state in 1978.

(The Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

(200-600, 1000 @ f/6.3, ISO 2500, edited to taste)

close to the earth

interwoven

nestled

we learn

the language of trees

in our sleep

worn like a cloak

of syllables, metaphors,

wings

that carry a sentence

of song

and light

into our dreams

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A very big and sincere THANK YOU for the company, support, inspiration and kindness that I've had the unexpected good luck to find here.

I'm truly sorry not to be so active lately. Alas energy is a fragile thing, and there is, so far, only one of me. I'm working on that ;-)

Catch you in the stream soon :-)

🌲🌱🌳 💛

Statue of Lord Buddha in the Bhumisparsha - Earth Touching Mudra, Tsog Kor evening, Tibetan Buddhism, Seattle, Washington, USA

www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/study/history_budd...

A Brief History of Sakya Monastery

Alexander Berzin, 1991, expanded September 2003

Original version published in "Sakya Monasteries." Chö-Yang, Year of Tibet Edition (Dharamsala, India), (1991).

In the Manjushri Root Tantra (‘Jam-dpal rtsa-rgyud), Buddha had prophesied that a Sakya Monastery would cause his teachings to flourish in the Land of Snows. The site of this monastery was also prophesied by Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava (Gur-ru Rin-po-che Pad-ma ‘byung-gnas). Several stupas had already been built at the monastery’s future location, when Atisha (Jo-bo-rje dPal-ldan A-ti-sha) (982-1053) stopped there in 1040. He saw on the mountainside a syllable "Hrih," seven "Dhih," and one "Hung," and prophesied that an incarnation of Avalokiteshvara, seven of Manjushri, and one of Vajrapani would grace this site.

In 1073, Konchog-gyelpo (dKon-mchog rgyal-po) (1034-1102) of the Kon (‘Khon) family established the Pelden Sakya Monastery (dPal-ldan Sa-skya dGon-pa) in Tsang (gTsang) province of Central Tibet. The monastery, and subsequently the tradition he founded, derived its name from the color of the soil of its location. "Sakya" means literally "gray earth."

The killdeer is a large plover found in the Americas. It gets its name from its shrill, two-syllable call, which is often heard. It was described and given its current scientific name in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae. Three subspecies are described. Wikipedia

Why do they call them killdeer?

Killdeer Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Killdeer get their name from the shrill, wailing kill-deer call they give so often. Eighteenth-century naturalists also noticed how noisy Killdeer are, giving them names such as the Chattering Plover and the Noisy Plover. Gravel rooftops attract Killdeer for nesting, but can be dangerous places to raise a brood.

Thanks to everyone that views and comments on my images - very much appreciated.

© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. On all my images, Use without permission is illegal.

The killdeer is a large plover found in the Americas. It gets its name from its shrill, two-syllable call, which is often heard. It was described and given its current scientific name in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae. Three subspecies are described. Wikipedia

Why do they call them killdeer?

Killdeer Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Killdeer get their name from the shrill, wailing kill-deer call they give so often. Eighteenth-century naturalists also noticed how noisy Killdeer are, giving them names such as the Chattering Plover and the Noisy Plover. Gravel rooftops attract Killdeer for nesting, but can be dangerous places to raise a brood.

Thanks to everyone that views and comments on my images - very much appreciated.

© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. On all my images, Use without permission is illegal.

We've shortened her name from Emily to M. We have to say it hundreds of times a day and saying one syllable is so much faster than three.

The Brain—is wider than the Sky—

For—put them side by side—

The one the other will contain

With ease—and You—beside—

The Brain is deeper than the sea—

For—hold them—Blue to Blue—

The one the other will absorb—

As Sponges—Buckets—do—

The Brain is just the weight of God—

For—Heft them—Pound for Pound—

And they will differ—if they do—

As Syllable from Sound—

Emily Dickinson, ‘The Brain is wider than the Sky’.

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If you read

what this April

rain writes

on gold leaves

in transparent ink,

a blurring script

of how what falls

through air

from nowhere

and shimmers,

for the moment,

a book of days

of unsayable

syllables, lovely,

nevertheless,

bejeweled,

reflective

of late light

along the deckle

edge, dissolving,

running off, falling

again, as all brief

infatuations do

into silence,

perhaps, in time

bittersweet memory,

then you know

the feeling.

--Miguel de O

This Waterfall and volcanic ash beach are near the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull which caused enormous disruption to air travel across western and northern Europe over an initial period of six days in April 2010. Eyjafjallajökull is more easily pronounced as E15 (E + 15 syllables).

Skógafoss is a waterfall situated in the south of Iceland at the cliffs of the former coastline. After the coastline had receded seaward (it is now at a distance of about 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) from Skógar), the former sea cliffs remained, parallel to the coast over hundreds of kilometres, creating together with some mountains a clear border between the coastal lowlands and the Highlands of Iceland.

The Skógafoss is one of the biggest waterfalls in the country with a width of 25 metres (82 feet) and a drop of 60 m (200 ft). Due to the amount of spray the waterfall consistently produces, a single or double rainbow is normally visible on sunny days. According to legend, the first Viking settler in the area, Þrasi Þórólfsson, buried a treasure in a cave behind the waterfall. The legend continues that locals found the chest years later, but were only able to grasp the ring on the side of the chest before it disappeared again. The ring was allegedly given to the local church. The old church door ring is now in a museum, though whether it gives any credence to the folklore is debatable.

At the eastern side of the waterfall, a hiking and trekking trail leads up to the pass Fimmvörðuháls between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull. It goes down to Þórsmörk on the other side and continues as the famous Laugavegur to Landmannalaugar. (Source - Wikipedia)

Der Wiedehopf liebt warme Regionen, weshalb er nur in bestimmten Regionen in Deutschland, wie zum Beispiel dem Kaiserstuhl in Baden-Württemberg, vorkommt. Als Zugvogel verbringt er den Winter in Afrika. Sein wissenschaftlicher Gattungsname „Upupa“ ist eine Nachahmung des Klangs seines dreisilbigen „upupup“-Balzrufes.

The hoopoe loves warm regions, which is why it only occurs in certain regions in Germany, such as the Kaiserstuhl in Baden-Württemberg. As a migratory bird, it spends the winter in Africa. Its scientific generic name "Upupa" is a mimic of the sound of its three-syllable "upupup" courtship call.

Large pigeon of marshy savannas, riversides, open areas with scattered trees, locally even in towns, such as Villahermosa, Mexico. Gray head contrasts with pinkish body, and whitish belly does not contrast strongly with plain grayish tail; compare darker Red-billed Pigeon, which often occurs in same areas but prefers drier and more forested habitats. Also note black bill of Pale-vented, and subtly distinctive song: after long introductory coo, repeated phrase is typically a 3-syllable "who’koo-koo", unlike 4-syllable "oo’koo-koo-koo" of Red-billed. (eBird)

Placencia, Belize. January 2011.

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Lutz City, Templemore City (34, 93, 32) - Moderate

Taken @ La Clef des champs

♫ TUNE ♫

"Knowledge"

by Jacob Lee

Sit close

Let me tell you every truth I know

I could read you poetry and prose

We could contemplate the syllables

If you so wish for it

If so

Let your consciousness dissolve like snow

Watch the branches replicate your bones

Place the precious palms among your own

Be the water and the boat, and so I stow

Every thought that lies inside of me

Atop the shelves, amidst my library

So when you're older you may visit me

When I'm at peace

Patiently, I reach up above

I can see the ocean as I stare at the stars

I will place my knowledge in your hands

It's okay if you don't understand just yet

Speak slow

Let me ask before I take a note

May I read a couple words you wrote?

Every page you touch, the letters glow

From the ashes do we grow

And I boast

I can comprehend the words you spoke

You're the writer and the quote, and so I hope

Every thought that lies inside of me

Someday finds its way from soul to speech

So I may bestow our legacy

Like you to me

Patiently, I reach up above

I can read the ocean as I write with the stars

I will place your knowledge in my hands

Flick a page until I understand, I do, oh

Like trying to speak while remaining in silence

Like facing your fears without feeling frightened

I'll never know if I'm yet to try it

I'll do my best to stay open-minded

Patiently, I reach up above

I can see the ocean as I stare at the stars

I will place my knowledge in your hands

Flick a page until I understand, I do, oh

Patiently, I reach up above

I can read the ocean as I write with the stars

I will place your knowledge in my hands

Flick a page until understand, I do, oh

A female, perhaps, with a more gray/grey head than the black of a male. Doesn't like the big glass! Yippee; barely captured her.

'C.J. Maynard (1896) comments that "when disturbed, it constantly reiterates its name of 'towhee' given very decidedly with the accent on the last syllable. This note is oftentimes interpreted as being 'chewink'...."'

www.birdsbybent.com/////ch31-40/towhee.html#behavior

youtu.be/48Gxm3FFzw4

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow - Scene from The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

There would have been a time for such a word.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time,

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more: it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

.

photo:

Mogosoaia Palace [built from 1702], near Bucharest, Romania

with major restoration works [1912-1945]

by architects Domenico Rupolo and G.M. Cantacuzino

for Marta Bibescu

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogo%C5%9Foaia_Palace

www.palatebrancovenesti.ro/en/index.php?option=com_conten...

www.palatebrancovenesti.ro/en/index.php?option=com_conten...

www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/en/Pa...

Constantin Brâncoveanu

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Br%C3%A2ncoveanu

Marthe Bibesco

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marthe_Bibesco

Domenico Rupolo

it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Rupolo

George Matei Cantacuzino

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Matei_Cantacuzino

I saw this calligraphy inside Kuri, the main building, of the Ryoanji Temple (龍安寺 or 竜安寺, Ryōanji), Kyoto, Japan. I asked for help for the translation and my dear friend Carol aka 奇芍 told me that these are all Chinese characters.

She wrote: "In Japanese, there are some adopted Chinese characters in it so that I can read them, nonetheless, with the fancy style, not too easy to read; all I can say is that they're related to ZEN teaching. I'm positive about it."

I got also further information from her about these adopted Chinese characters:

"''Prior to the 3rd century, Japanese had no writing system. China, on the other hand, already had a civilization advanced past its time, with a well-established writing system of characters, called Hanzi. The Japanese decided to borrow Chinese characters as a way to give their language a written form. The problem was, Chinese and Japanese are very different languages. Chinese, for example, does not have tense or conjugation. Japanese, on the other hand, has myriad conjugations of its verbs that can express different tenses, moods, and level of formality. To add insult to injury, Chinese phonetics are more complex than Japanese phonetics. Worse yet, Chinese is a monosyllabic writing system; each character (or word) contains one syllable. Japanese words can be multiple syllables.

However, the "Hanzi" mentioned above means the traditional Chinese, not the simplified Chinese used in Mainland China now.""

The temple and its gardens are listed as one of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, and as an UNESCO World Heritage.

"Autumn leaves falling, creating a brown carpet, mushrooms spring upwards."

Autumn Treasure Haiku written by Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel Black

This solitary mushroom led me to the sparse beauty of Haiku, a form of Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

acrylic/ oil on canvas, 40x50 cm

The Robin for the Crumb

Returns no syllable

But long records the Lady’s name

In Silver Chronicle.

poem 864 Emily Dickinson

The red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa) is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. It is sometimes known as French partridge, to distinguish it from the English or grey partridge. The genus name is from Ancient Greek alektoris a farmyard chicken, and rufa is Latin for red or rufous.[2]

It is a rotund bird, with a light brown back, grey breast and buff belly. The face is white with a black gorget. It has rufous-streaked flanks and red legs. When disturbed, it prefers to run rather than fly, but if necessary it flies a short distance on rounded wings.

This is a seed-eating species, but the young in particular take insects as an essential protein supply. The call is a three-syllable ka-chu-chu.

Though the flower was just beautiful on its own,

it was displayed with paints brushed on it (Hideko Suzuki)

そのままで美しいのにあの花は絵の具を塗られて飾られていた (鈴木秀子）

The Venetian word "sotopòrtego" (the 3rd syllable is stressed) means "alley passing underneath a building". The sotoportego is typical for Venetian town construcion. Here you see Sotoportego de le Colone in Castello, which is one of the six districts of Venice, called "sestieri" (sing. "sestiere").

...

it's raining, light footsteps, a murmur of syllables,

air and water, words with no weight:

what we are and are,

the days and years, this moment,

weightless time and heavy sorrow,

listen to me as one listens to the rain,

...

night unfolds and looks at me,

you are you and your body of steam,

you and your face of night,

you and your hair, unhurried lightning,

you cross the street and enter my forehead,

...

the years go by, the moments return,

do you hear the footsteps in the next room?

not here, not there: you hear them

in another time that is now,

...

your shadow covers this page.

from as one listens to the rain

octavio paz

Space Junk re-enters sporadically

like the syllables

of an American Haiku.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVstafKZDYY

Superfluous were the Sun

When Excellence be dead

He were superfluous every Day

For every Day be said

That syllable whose Faith

Just saves it from Despair

And whose "I'll meet You" hesitates

If Love inquire "Where"?

Upon His dateless Fame

Our Periods may lie

As Stars that drop anonymous

From an abundant sky.

Emily Dickinson

The skylark is a small brown bird, somewhat larger than a sparrow but smaller than a starling. It is streaky brown with a small crest, which can be raised when the bird is excited or alarmed, and a white-sided tail. The wings also have a white rear edge, visible in flight. It is renowned for its display flight, vertically up in the air.

Only the nightingale rivals the skylark’s reputation as one of the finest songsters in the bird world. There can be anything from 160 to over 460 syllables in the song.

Almost all European countries have reported a decline in lark numbers in recent years, the result of agricultural intensification.

tall verbena

white on purple

fluttering by

gratitude for all visits to my photostream

Former residence of Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶旧宅) is located on a muddy and busy roadside of National Route 18. It is a restored house where Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶 1763-1828), a Haiku poet in Edo Period, lived until he died.

He was born in present-day Shinano-machi as the first son of a farmer. He was sent to Edo, present-day Tokyo, when he was 15 years old to work as a servant. He later made his living as a Haiku poet and returned to his hometown when he was 51.

Haiku (俳句) is a style of short poem consisting of 17 syllables in 3 lines (5, 7, 5 syllables, respectively).

He composed the following Haiku when he returned to Shinano-machi. My lousy translation is attached.

是がまあ Korega maa

終の栖か Tsuino sumikaka

雪五尺 Yuki goshaku

Oh well, this would be

my terminal residence.

The five feet of snow!

quietly prowling

a graceful cat rainbow bright

on a city wall

Their family is flycatcher but they are different from other flycatchers in appearance as well as in habits.

The Great Kiskadee (so named for its three-syllable call) is one of the largest and most boisterous members of the tyrant flycatcher family. It has a big square head and stocky body like a kingfisher, and an omnivorous diet and bold behavior like a jay. They often eat small fish and snails.

Great Kiskadees are aggressive. They will boldly chase larger animals that attempt to raid their nests, such as monkeys, raptors, and snakes.

CHEF skagitrenee urges us to become poets – in word and image!

➤ Your image must be an open-card-style diptych (not just side-by-side panels … see first two entries below for examples).

➤ Your diptych must portray an illustrated, self-created HAIKU OF EXACTLY 17 SYLLABLES** with the haiku on one side panel and the illustration on the other (though it’s okay if your illustration bleeds onto the haiku side).

➤ Your illustration must include purple and/or blue flower(s).

➤Also one or more black or dark-colored silhouettes (human and/or animal).

➤ NO WATER of any kind.

The flowers and haiku are mine. The silhouette is from Pixabay.

I think we could all use a guardian angel to watch over us right now.

Words

The world does not need words. It articulates itself

in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path

are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted.

The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.

The kiss is still fully itself though no words were spoken.

And one word transforms it into something less or other--

illicit, chaste, perfunctory, conjugal, covert.

Even calling it a kiss betrays the fluster of hands

glancing the skin or gripping a shoulder, the slow

arching of neck or knee, the silent touching of tongues.

Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot

name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica.

To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper--

metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa

carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.

The sunlight needs no praise piercing the rainclouds,

painting the rocks and leaves with light, then dissolving

each lucent droplet back into the clouds that engendered it.

The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always--

greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.

- Dana Gioia -

さくら さくら さくら咲き初め咲き終わり なにもなかったような公園 (俵　万智）

Cherry, cherry cherry trees begin to bloom, and bloom is over -- in the park where nothing (it seems) ever happened.

(poet Machi Tawara)

（this is translated by authority of this field)

俳句が好きだとおっしゃるUS在住のお友達conceptvesselさんへ(俳句は

あまり知らないので）短歌でトリビュートしました

I dedicate this to friend conceptvessel-san who lives in U.S. and

familiar with "short poem with 5-7-5 syllables" called "Haiku" in Japan (Japanese traditional poem by 5-7-5 words).

though I don't know many Haiku, I like Tanka which resembles Haiku.

But Tanka is made from 5-7-5-7-7 words. and this is famous

and one of my favorite work.(^ ^)

"The Brain — is wider than the Sky —

For — put them side by side —

The one the other will contain

With ease — and You — beside —

The Brain is deeper than the sea —

For — hold them — Blue to Blue —

The one the other will absorb —

As Sponges — Buckets — do —

The Brain is just the weight of God —

For — Heft them — Pound for Pound —

And they will differ — if they do —

As Syllable from Sound —"

- Emily Dickinson, The Brain is Wider than the Sky

Capture and Edit by Orchid Arado

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Photo locale, Backdrop City:

Mixmaster Challenge 43:

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➤ Your image must be an open-card-style diptych (not just side-by-side panels … see first two entries below for examples).

➤ Your diptych must portray an illustrated, self-created haiku** with the haiku on one side panel and the illustration on the other (though it’s okay if your illustration bleeds onto the haiku side).

➤ Your illustration must include purple and/or blue flower(s).

➤Also one or more black or dark-colored silhouettes (human and/or animal).

➤ NO WATER of any kind.

( **A haiku is a short poem of 17 syllables, typically in three lines of five, seven and five syllables.)

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"Just like we each have our own voice, each male Lazuli Bunting sings a unique combination of notes. Yearling males generally arrive on the breeding grounds without a song of their own. Shortly after arriving, they create their own song by rearranging syllables and combining song fragments of several males. The song they put together is theirs for life."allaboutboids

“When I pronounce the word Future,

the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,

I destroy it.”

-Wisława Szymborska-

Featuring AOURY France - Yudu Headphone for We Love Role Play

Date: September 4th

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the road ahead

no way to know it

just keep walking

A gorgeous female cardinal.Both male and female Northern Cardinals sing. ... Syllables can sound like the bird is singing cheer, cheer, cheer or birdie, birdie, birdie.

From time to time, syllables flow inside you, You want the nights to never end and stay inside you. You knead your joys with pain in the rain, Then you smell here, with every rain that falls.

pearled web

autumn bokeh

absent spider

for Looking close... on Friday!: spider and/or spider web

Green Heron, Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I was really stumped for a title for this picture. I was looking for a word that rhymes with heron, like starin' heron. But I drove that one 'til the wheels fell off. I went to a website that lists words that rhyme with heron. One choice was "barron" (nope). Another choice with 3 syllables was "bakhtaran" (again, nope). Another choice with 4 syllables was "hexaemeron" (I can't even). Another choice with 5 syllables was Martin Van Buren. Apparently I have been pronouncing his name wrong all these years. It must be pronounced Martin Van Beron. My bad. Well, when I read that I laughed out loud so there it is. Martin Van Buren. It rhymes with heron. Allegedly.