Challange: Japanese gardner

[HarryHill]

No spoilers, no limits, Myself I like:

She stood bent against the sun,
fork fleshing out non-green again.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I have another eye operation tomorrow so don't know if I will be feeling up to writing poetry.

 

[HarryHill]

I have another eye operation tomorrow so don't know if I will be feeling up to writing poetry.

..
Get some rest.

 

[Senna Jawa]

A Request from a Japanese Farmer

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A Request from a Japanese Farmer

you're my hope when you're passing by --
smell the cherries- talk to the frogs.

my farm will give you a haiku --
give it your shit in return.​

wh,
1990-4-12/13​

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[HarryHill]

Honey bees feed on golden turnip blooms. An old man smiles.

 

[cascadiabound]

pruning

Stands and considers
The maple tree
Eyes darting
Following each limb
And crossing line

Steps forward
And snips a branch

Considers again
Smiles and nods

 

[Senna Jawa]

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A Request [...]
​

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If someone didn't know, Japanese farmers used to collect human feces dutifully, including those from their guests, to use these feces as a natural fertilizer.

 

[Senna Jawa]

[my father...]

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my father and i
walk on the patio
every
weekday weekendday holiday
i admire the gardeners' care

who am i?
my father does not know
nor my mother's name
he does not remember
his long gone wife

i show him the bold roses
the light pink bush
the pristine white
and the third one
of the deep ripe cherry color

choose one

he selects
the deep dark red
my mother's favorite color​

wh,
2010-may​

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[UnderYourSpell]

As her master did decree,
with grace and poise
delicately a fragile flower
petals unopened, paper thin,
breasts but twin buds.

 

[butters]

kare-sansui

white sand
raked daily
serenely contemplates
erosion of rock

 

[butters]

ryōan-ji

in a sea of white gravel
no rock stands alone
no man is an island




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or



ryōan-ji

in a sea of white gravel no rock stands alone no man is an island
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or this, my preferred presentation:


ryōan-ji

in a sea of white gravel no rock stands alone



15 stones, in sets of 5, 3's, and 2's

 

[butters]

^^ although these two don't exactly have 'the gardener' front and centre, given the nature of the sand and gravel raking that takes place, hoping they pass muster

 

[butters]

young tree
weighted and twisted
peers at its reflection
in a small pond
home to jumping frogs

 

[Mrtenant]

Tulips sway

Amid the cedar

In the cool mist

Of welcome sunrise

Far away

On a low hill

The grass rustles

Red robins sing

Cherry blossoms

Adrift on zephyrs

Cool and crisp

By the creek

She rinses her hair

Silken black

Hypnotic curves

And a merry song

A smile to die for

Just today
​

 

[UnderYourSpell]

He keeps her garden well trimmed, bush topiary symmetrical, fertilised.

 

[Piscator]

calm in his garden
fences aligned to Feng Shui
white pebble path guides
past present grey miasma
old memories shine brightly

 

[butters]

who's up next? you, Piscator?

 

[Piscator]

I'm not sure, the "winning criteria" weren't specified.

 

[HarryHill]

I'm not sure, the "winning criteria" weren't specified.

..
Yes please fishy post the next one.. Make it sweet and easy if you will back to bed/sleep for me.

 

[HarryHill]

Not linked yet.> next HERE

 

[UnderYourSpell]

In the land of Cherry blossom
you transplant an English Rose,
bare root buried deep
and deflowered.

 

[Piscator]

Bonsai

though constrained within
this small pot the ancient tree
conjures the forest