New York Lotus

With a hint of Photoshop

 

 

Palm Leaves

As the palms sway

In a dance of their own

The leaves whisper

In anticipation of stories

Brought by the wind

From faraway lands

To water the nuts

With fulfilling tales

-Okunbo Turner

Afternoon Bridge

Peach light bathes the air,
encouraging the corners of a genuine smile.
Sweet air taps you on the shoulder and 
tousles wisps of hair.

This childlike mood,
that sees every tulip bloom
 and hears the song of each auburn-bellied bird,
it is lovely.

We are made for these moments.
We are made for these moods.
This afternoon, it is made for us.

- Caitlin Wetzel

Chinese Scholars Garden

The conflict between scholarly civic duties and the desire to retreat from the world is called  ”The Scholars Dilemma”.

Autumn Trees

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.
Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.”

-Andrew Wyeth

Evening Mountain

“All the birds have flown up and gone;
 A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other – 
Only the mountain and I”.

- Li Po

Floating Flowers

Do not pity the flower that flies off

Grieve for the western garden

It fallen red already beyond mending

Now, after the morning rain

What’s left?

A pond full of broken duckweed

If the tree parts of spring

two turn to dust

One to the flowing water

Look -

These are not catkins

Bud the drop after drop of parted lover’s tears.

-Shui lung yin