Posts tagged "nature"

watching the snow
from last year
fall again

—Basho

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black forest
no matter what you think
a snowy morning

Basho

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warming my hands
on my teacup
morning frost

Ogawa

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the lingering
scent of orchids
in a private room

Bashō

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The Snail

“A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the entire scale of metaphors, from the resurrection of a man in his grave, to the sudden outburst of one who has long been silent. If we remain at the heart of the image under consideration, we have the impression that, by staying in the motionlessness of its shell, the creature is preparing temporal explosions, not to say whirlwinds, of being.”
— The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard

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