“The moon and sun are eternal travellers”
~Basho
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spinning: the moon, the sun, planet earth, solar systems, the Milky Way … a spiral dance to eternity.
unity
what we always have
known and lost
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©️2019 Ontheland
Thank you to Frank Tassone for offering a November with Matsuo Basho feature, using for inspiration Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Interior as translated by Sam Hamill. Day 1’s excerpt is this:
The Moon and Sun are eternal travelers. Even the years wander on. A lifetime adrift in a boat, or in old age leading a tired horse into the years, every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home…
Even this grass hut
may be transformed
into a doll’s house
Basho, “Narrow Road to the Interior” The Essential Basho (Trsl. Sam Hamill) pg. 3,4
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