diff --git a/writing/3/seasons/index.md b/writing/3/seasons/index.md index 998c39e6..46350854 100644 --- a/writing/3/seasons/index.md +++ b/writing/3/seasons/index.md @@ -58,6 +58,24 @@ Within her womb there grows a golden bloom. Spring is commonly associated with newness. New growth, new life, new warmth under a new sun. + + +Haiku by Issa - https://archive.org/details/autumnwindselect0000koba/page/10/mode/2up + +''' +Heedless that the dews +mark the passing of our day --- +we bind ourselves to others + +(Mi no ue no tsuyu to mo shirade hodashikeri - p.11 - spring) + +Floating weeds, +as blow the winds of the floating world --- +drifting and drifting + +(Ukigusa ya ukiyo no kaze no iu mama ni - p.18 - spring) +''' + ## Summer ''' @@ -79,6 +97,24 @@ And shed the smoke rings on my cloven finger. \parencite[8]{leaves} ''' + + +Haiku by Issa - https://archive.org/details/autumnwindselect0000koba/page/10/mode/2up + +''' +On the hill of summer +Stands the slender maiden flower +In a solitary humor + +(Natsuyama ya / Hitori kigen no / Ominaeshi - p.65 - summer) + +Heedless that the tolling bell +Marks our own closing day --- +We take this evening's cool + +(Mi no ue no kane tomo shirade yusuzumi - p.39 - summer) +''' + ## Autumn ''' @@ -109,6 +145,50 @@ The harvestmen scuttle and bob onwards. +"To Autumn" verse 1 by Keats + +''' +Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, + Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; +Conspiring with him how to load and bless + With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; +To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, + And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; + To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells + With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, +And still more, later flowers for the bees, +Until they think warm days will never cease, + For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. +''' + +*Intercession in Late October* + +Poetry vol.71 no.1 - October 1947 - pg.23 - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=24836 + +How hard the year dies: no frost yet +On drifts of yellow sand Midas reclines +Fearless of moaning reed or sullen wave +Firm and fragrant still the brambleberries +On ivy-bloom butterflies wag + +Spare him a little longer, Crone +For his clean hands and love-submissive heart +''' + +''' +Red dragon-fly --- +He's the one that likes the evening, +Or so it seems. + +(Akatombo / Kare mo yubo ga / Suki ja yara - p.65 - autumn) + +O winds of autumn! +Nearer we draw to the Buddha +As the years advance + +(Akikaze yo hotoke ni chikaki toshi no hodo - p.11 - autumn) +''' + ## Winter ''' @@ -132,6 +212,99 @@ The compost for being my winter blanket. \parencite[5]{leaves} ''' + + + +''' +Is this it, then, +My last resting place --- +Five feet of snow! + +(Kore ga maa tsui no sumika ka yuki goshaku - p.37 - winter) + +A blessing indeed --- +This snow on the bed-quilt, +This, too, is from the pure land + +(Arigata ya fusama no yuki mo Jodo yori - p.46 - winter) +''' + +''' +*Lament for Pasiphaƫ* + +pg.206 + +Dying sun, shine warm a little longer! +My eye, dazzled with tears, shall dazzle yours +Conjuring you to shine and not to move +You, sun, and I all afternoon have laboured +Beneath a dewless and oppressive cloud-- +A fleece now gilded with our commen grief +That this must be a night without a moon +Dying sun, shine warm a little longer! + +Faithless she was not: she was very woman +Smiling with dire impartiality +Sovereign, with heart unmatched, adored of men +Until Spring's cuckoo with bedraggled plumes +Tempted her pity and her truth betrayed +Then she who shone for all resigned her being +And this must be a night without a moon +Dying sun, shine warm a little longer! + +*Like Snow* + +pg.143 + +She, then, like snow in a dark night +Fell secretly. And the world waked +With dazzling of the drowsy eye +So that some muttered 'Too much light,' +And drew the curtains close +Like snow, warmer than fingers feared +And to soil friendly; +Holding the histories of the night +In yet unmelted tracks + +*She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep* + +pg.173 + +She tells her love while half asleep +In the dark hours +With half-words whispered low: + +As Earth stirs in her winter sleep +And puts out grass and flowers +Despite the snow +Despite the falling snow +''' + +"Winter" by Eric Whitacre, text by Edward Esch - https://ericwhitacre.com/music-catalog/winter + +''' +I. +The snow is falling, +sleeping, +whispering, +dreaming of water. + +II. +Gold, silver, iron, stone; +pure and gentle, silently melting, +the sun sings softly through the quiet ice. + +III. +A single snowflake awakens, +shimmers, +glows, +watches the world with weary eyes, +darkens, +settles, +and disappears. +''' + + ## Works cited ```