Princess Haiku is a literary collage of poetry, prose, photography, classical music, dance and book reviews, written in the tradition of a poetic memoir.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
a Small Paradise
This is the Japanese garden near the cottage where I have flute lessons. The little trees told me that music from all of the students falls upon their blooms like a gentle rain.
Is Princess Haiku being fanciful or did she really hear the trees? hint: The answer is in the blossoms.
As always, your page blossoms with ethereal beauty. I know you would appreciate a beautifully written and illustrated Rumi translation/interpretation, by Maryam Mafi and Melita Kolin. It is now out of print, but check Amazon Marketplace, "Hidden Music" by Maryam Mafi and Melita Kolin (there is a link to Melita's webpage, on my page) BTW, this is an English edition, check out Amazon.co.uk. I feel the unfolding of the blossoms to the strains of the flute.
Those are pretty nice trees. Are those "bonsai"? I bet taking care of such garden would require a lot of patience... japanese patience perhaps, who knows?
Diane Dehler is a photographer and poet. Her flower photography has been featured on Haiga online and she has several thousand followers on facebook. Her multi-media video poem, "The Lotus" has received 3000+ views on youtube. As a poet she is known for her lyricism and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Prizes 2016. She received a degree from the Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University, receiving the Outstanding Student of the Year Award. She is an English Language poet in the international literary scene and; has been published in numerous poetry journals and three anthologies. Mostly recently she has published in, The Artemis Review, Cultural Weekly, Edgar Allan Poet, The Mas Tequila Review, The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Munyori Literary Review, The Taj Mahal Review, Truck, Deepwater Literary Journal, Moonbathing: A Journal of Women’s Tanka, Lummox Journal and poeticdiversity.
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As always, your page blossoms with ethereal beauty. I know you would appreciate a beautifully written and illustrated Rumi translation/interpretation, by Maryam Mafi and Melita Kolin. It is now out of print, but check Amazon Marketplace, "Hidden Music" by Maryam Mafi and Melita Kolin (there is a link to Melita's webpage, on my page) BTW, this is an English edition, check out Amazon.co.uk. I feel the unfolding of the blossoms to the strains of the flute.
Those are pretty nice trees. Are those "bonsai"?
I bet taking care of such garden would require a lot of patience... japanese patience perhaps, who knows?
Take care!
These are Chinese bonsai A and I don't grow them myself. I am fortunate to be able to visit them when I have a flute lesson.
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