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Images and Reflections III
Photographs by Yao Xiang, with accompanying
haiku and poetry by Issa, and others
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"Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all-
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
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I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?"
-- From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
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Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice
from what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
to say that for destruction, ice
is also great and will suffice.
-- Robert Frost
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Time and space collide
Silence ... who's singing that hymn?
some lonely cricket
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Old man hummingbird
at what age did you first taste
the sun's sweet nectar
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For so work the honey-
bees,
Creatures that by a rule in
nature teach
The act of order to a
peopled kingdom.
-- Shakespeare
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When the bush warbler
sings, the old frog belches
his reply
-- Shoha
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This world is a dream
So filled with pain and sorrow
yet..at times, so cool
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The light in the dark
the hard thing in the soft thing
both chewing their cud
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Within this small toad
a princeling emperor waits
quick kiss me you fool.
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