Tanka...Cosmos 秋桜a

盆過ぎて み魂(たま)かなたへ 風しろく 置きのみやげの秋桜（こすもす）そよぎ

Bon passed

spirits left for another world...

cosmos flowers

as parting gifts

whispering in white breeze

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コスモスの写真はちょうどお盆過ぎの8月21日に撮りました。
Bon is one of the most important events for Japanese Buddhists August 13-15 in many areas.
Seeing-off Bon is Aug 16-18.
It is said the dead spirits descend to this world during the Bon/ Obon period.
I took pictures of  cosmos-flowers  Aug. 21 after Obon.

©2018Rika Inami稲美 里佳

盆過ぎて み魂(たま)彼岸へ 風しろく しばしの別れ秋桜（こすもす）そよぎ

©豊田 隆志

来月はお彼岸がきます。そのときにまた語り合うことができますね。

Halo of the saint
flowers have fallen
dusk comes earlier…
enthusiasm is fading
berries will be ripe

Photograph & Tanka© Noriyuki Sawada

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Spirits whispering
from the unknown source
should be the last time we meet
a reminder of life

©Miriam Strauss

Photo by Marjorie Mahieu

The bunch of flowers are
given to her when she won the first orize as singer.

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