Sunday, June 22, 2008





The Taste of Green




"Another piece..."

"You`ll be a frog in your next life," my son says. Then, he croaks.

I don`t care about the future. Here and now – the special taste of matcha cheese cake. Matcha – the fine, powdered green tea, which is used for the tea ceremony! Our Japanese guide tells us what we will do tomorrow and leaves us.

Around the corner
a moss-covered path
leads to the Buddha






(author: Angelika Wienert; first published in: Haibun Today, May 23, 2008)
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19 comments:

  1. Borut10:12 PM

    Ecellent! What a lead-in into Buddhism. Croak-wise!?:)

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  2. Masago2:10 AM

    A beauty.

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  3. Janice Thomson3:38 PM

    Yes, beautiful - a well-layered piece .

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  4. haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert)7:53 PM

    thank you very much!!!

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  5. Bill10:25 PM

    Another good one, Angelika.

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  6. John McDonald9:44 AM

    loved it Angelika
    john

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  7. haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert)4:04 PM

    thank you, Bill and John!!

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  8. polona7:49 PM

    oh... this creates a very special atmosphere...

    (ready for the match?)

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  9. haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert)11:32 PM

    thank you very much, Polona!


    "...(ready for the match?)..." The German-team was lucky (3 : 2)! But everyone here say that the Turkish players played very well (especially the second Turkish goal -- wow!). Here is a big party this evening. What will happen on Sunday? Wait and see...

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  10. J. Andrew Lockhart6:31 AM

    I love this! I need to look into the Haibun Today.

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  11. Ričardas12:52 PM

    I love that link between matcha and mossy path, they look so alike. Great.

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  12. haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert)4:33 PM

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  13. haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert)4:36 PM

    i made a typo before...
    sorry

    *****************

    thank you, J.Andrew!
    thank you, Ricardas!


    yesterday we worked in our garden, the stone-Buddha was nearly hidden (branches of a bush), now Buddha`s smile is returned...

    best wishes,
    Angelika

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  14. Tikkis9:27 PM

    A frog
    jumping behind the Buddha --
    our tea ceremony!

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  15. haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert)8:31 AM

    nice, Tikkis!
    thank you!

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  16. a natural creature on planet earth11:29 PM

    hello dear haiku-shelf
    so very nice to meet you

    http://kirstenz.web-log.nl/expressfree/2008/04/a-frog.html

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  17. haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert)4:39 PM

    thank you that you came to haiku-shelf, Kirsten!

    i went again to your blog (and hope that a lot of others will do the same, there are so beautiful photos!) and i`m sure that i`ll return

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  18. Crafty Green Poet10:19 AM

    This is lovely, very engaging

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  19. haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert)4:51 PM

    I`m happy that you read my haibun!

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