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Posted: 29 Jan 2016

Taken: 28 Jan 2014

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Kyoto approach

Kyoto approach
Somewhere between Tokyo and Kyoto, 2014.

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 William Sutherland
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Awesome work!

This is something different, something very special.
YOUR ARE A CREATIVE MASTER. THIS IS TRULY IMPRESSIVE.

~ARTISTIC IMPRESSIONS~
8 years ago.
 Diane Putnam
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Thanks so much!
8 years ago.
 Steve Bucknell
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Seated Figure

I
At Kyoto Station
take the number 50 bus
to the last stop.

II
Behind all the faces
in the streets
our shadows.

III
Prepare.
wear autumn colours,
carry Bashō ,
and bring a cushion.

IV
Hand over 500 yen at the gate,
say ‘domo arigatou,’
bow slightly,
look stern and serene.

V
At Roanji temple
clay walls, beams, curved eaves
ties and tiled roofs
frame the scene.

VI
Make your way
to the longed-for garden:
walk along the Hōjō
sit at the mid-point.

VII
Look from the veranda
across raked gravel
to the fifteen stones
grouped as islands.

VIII
Meditating, witness
a seated figure.
Focus
as the garden unfolds.

IX
Across the prefecture of Kyoto,
from the houses of Ukyo
and on hills of Sheffield
snow must fall.

X
This is
what you say it is,
And, yes,
it is.

XI
Smile.

XII
Snow settles on your quiet head,
snow is everywhere.

XIII
Now
brush these words away.
8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.
 Steve Bucknell
Steve Bucknell club
An old poem of mine. I've never been to Japan or the temple, but I like the idea of it.
8 years ago.
 Diane Putnam
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Steve, that is magnificent! I would never guess you hadn't been there. "Look stern and serene" is accurate, how did you know? Arranging one's face in that way is necessary, unfamiliar and difficult for a westerner in Japan. Well, I managed the stern expression, because I'm like my grandmother, but serenity...I doubt I pulled that off. I felt serene for only 20 minutes, when I was alone in a tiny shrine, as in your poem. I was very much off balance in Japan. Africa was less foreign to me.

Thank you very much for your spectacular words.
8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.

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