stillness in motion

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Walking along the edge of a small Japanese town sandwiched between the sea and a quick-rising mountain ridge, I came upon a temple complex with this written at its entrance.

“Try to remember the names of even seemingly insignificant flowers growing along the path on which you walk. It helps for the long journey of your time on earth.”

I wondered, was the person who wrote this message really referring to flowers, maybe the flowers on the long path of a temple pilgrimage, or was he speaking generally about the small details of life—a baby’s smile, the taste of the first strawberries of the year, the feeling of a spring breeze after a long winter, etc.?


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(1)

its beak full of straw
the old crow reminds me
starting over is easy

(2)

bobbing along
with the ducks on the pond
plastic bottles

(3)

the music stopped
and everything
changed

(4)

sand in the eye
a tiny forget-me-not
left behind by winter

(5)

a brief pause
amidst the preparations
for you spring breeze

(6)

sand dunes
inching their way forward
stillness in motion

(7)

a pinecone
on the temple steps
my companion


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I really enjoyed the context you gave to the poem, it expanded the meaning for me. Lovely.

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while lurking online,
I click on some articles.
Read, comment, upvote.

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Oh, the modern life. 🤣

It used to be,

sitting at the table
cutting out coupons
waiting for the mail

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Newspaper coupons
Just nostalgia, or better?
Loyalty cards suck.

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Good poem! Interesting thought that you read there, I think it's about enjoying the small things in life. It's easy to take the small things for granted. Life is short, the farther along I get the more I realize it and I try more to enjoy those little things from coffee in the morning to fresh fruits!

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Yep. When the day-to-day routine gets put on repeat, time starts to move very fast, and it’s easy to lose awareness of all the things that you actually have right in front of you. It’s funny how things that are so normal to us become slightly invisibile.

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I am often struck by the messages written at the entrances to temples and often stop to ponder their content. Many of them seem too high level for me, though😅
The first picture is very nice. It's hard to capture the moment when a bird takes flight on camera.

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Up until this day, I had never noticed temples with writing at their entranceways. I must not be looking close enough. This one, luckily, had an English translation. The sign in Japanese was written in calligraphic writing, so I had a hard time reading the kanji in it.

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I can be frustrating to walk around with as I love to take in all the minutiae along the way!

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The little things in life that matter 💝 I love your pictures!

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