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:

Borut said...

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

Masago said...

A beauty.

Janice Thomson said...

Yes, beautiful - a well-layered piece .

haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert) said...

thank you very much!!!

Bill said...

Another good one, Angelika.

John McDonald said...

loved it Angelika
john

haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert) said...

thank you, Bill and John!!

polona said...

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

(ready for the match?)

haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert) said...

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...

J. Andrew Lockhart said...

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

Ričardas said...

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

haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert) said...
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haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert) said...

i made a typo before...
sorry

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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

Tikkis said...

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

haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert) said...

nice, Tikkis!
thank you!

a natural creature on planet earth said...

hello dear haiku-shelf
so very nice to meet you

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

haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert) said...

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

Crafty Green Poet said...

This is lovely, very engaging

haiku-shelf (Angelika Wienert) said...

I`m happy that you read my haibun!