歲月清明

The fourth day
of the new year : what better day
to leave the world ?

( 秋之坊 / 1718 )







A cuckoo cries
the end -- cloud
on a summer morn .

( 瓦夙 / 1888 )







Oh , I don't care
where autumn clouds
are drifting to .

( 蕪風 / 1792 )






I wonder where
the winds of winter
drive the rainclouds ...

( 白猿 / 1806 )







Sadly I see
the light fade on my palm
a firefly .

( 千子 / 1688 )







Farewell --
I pass as all things do
dew on the grass .

( 晚山 / 1730 )







I wait , white clouds
and dark clouds passing --
a cuckoo cries .

( 鳥醉 / 1769 )







This year I want
to see the lotus
on the other side .

( 寂羅 / 1906 )







You can not tell
its taste to him
who never tasted blowfish .

( 大梅 / 1841 )







People , when you see the smoke ,
do not think
it is fields they're burning .

( 梅價 / 1843 )







Returning thanks
for life , I turn back and bow
eastward .

( 五始 / 1775 )







Blow if you will ,
fall wind -- the flowers
have all faded .

( 習元山 / 1895 )







If I must die
let it be autumn
ere the dew is dry .

( 紅葉 / 1903 )







Autumn waters
of this world wake me
from my drunkenness .

( 燕凌 / 1855 )







Empty cicada shell :
as we come
we go back naked .

( 不角 / 1753 )







The year is ending :
I have not left my heart
behind .

( 半海 / 1882 )







Now as a spirit
I shall roam
the summer field .

( 北齋 / 1849 )







On a journey , ill :
my dream goes wandering
over withered fields .

( 芭蕉 / 1694 )







What is it but a dream ?
The blossoming as well
lasts only seven cycles .

( 白猿 / 1806 )







Today , then , is the day
the melting snowman
is a real man .

( 賦泉 / 1777 )







Leaves never fall
in vain -- from all around
bells tolling .

( 登里 / 1778 )







I crossed from last
year to the new
today's the limit .

( 蚊山 / 1787 )







Give my dream back ,
raven ! The moon you woke me to
is misted over .

( 鬼貫 / 1738 )






又是清明時節
上個星期登山掛紙去
這些影像分別攝於觀音山與大屯山麓
兩山之間隔著淡水河

" A Meeting by the River .... "
to Those Leaving Souls