poetic fragments 7

The city lights
Reflected on the winter lake
Genève is now
In the scent of full moon

Sadness in his eyes
The truth in his falsetto
The lake is too pellucid

poetic fragments 6

At the end
Of a bare corridor,
Autumn leaves
In sunlight
There are always answers
In my memory
But no questions
No writings

poetic fragments 5

The shade on the desk
Of a small stone
From Lac Léman
Winter has come in it

The sound of silence
Somewhere

poetic fragments 4

All the rivers
To the sea
All the living now
As the cosmos flowers
Beyond love
Beyond poetry

A boy's counting stars

poetic fragments 3

Time flows slowly
Through the land
The sun never sets
Over the lake
A still winter
In a swan

poetic fragments 2

The deep winter sky -

A hawk falling

Into it

Another moon

Another vanity

poetic fragments 1

The autumn water
In the glass
Rhein still runs
In it.

I'm satisfied
The earth is round.

Haiku op. 277

(photo) sprouts of rice








peony flowers -
even their shadows
have colors

five line poetry 1

(photo) hydrangeas










white paper:
world doesn't still begin
words are at the edge of the world
we often fall it out
- breezing there

Haiku op. 276

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smiling on the bed
crying on the bed -
her late life

Haiku op. 275

(photo) clouds in June








summer clouds
in the rice field


a smile to me

Haiku op. 274

(photo) a monument of Basho's haiku










birds don't know
happiness or unhappiness

late May river

Haiku op. 273

(photo) the temple called Konponji associated with Basho








silence is 
the comfortable word


fresh green tea

Haiku op. 272

(photo) Tone river








fallen persimmon flowers
on the wet paving stones
on holiday morning

Haiku op. 271

(photo) rice field








the old man said to
the homeless man, 
good luck, under the fresh green

Haiku op. 270

(photo) Kashima shrine










the sound of the surf
deep in the fresh green -
Kashima shrine

Haiku op. 269

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fresh green leaves
shaking in the wind -
even their shadows are green

Haiku op. 259

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hear a good old song
from the bath


the night of greens

Haiku op. 258

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the night of the fresh green
is on my palm -
moonless

Reading A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE U.S by Howard Zinn (1)

Chapter 1 Columbus, the Indians, and human progress

I think it interesting that Zinn begins the US history from Columbus' discovery. Even though there has been history in America before the discovery, he takes this writing style that probably reveals Zinn's western-orientated view of the US history.

Zinn said that Spain sought gold, more useful than land because it could buy anything. But I wonder if gold was not got in the country at all. Zinn describes Columbus not as hero but as a heartless fellow. his second expenditure's aim was slaves and gold. Columbus couldn't find gold fields and put fifteen hundred men, women, and children in pens to send to Spain to sell there. Too many of the slaves died in captivity.

I think Columbus' cruel behavior was characteristic of the Christians in that time who regarded the infidel as not human. It is not until Levi Strauss(1908-2009) that this perceptions change dramatically. Levi Strauss showed the same social structure in the uncivilized societies as one in the western societies. He said that the "uncivilized societies" were not lagging behind the western societies because they have the same social structure.

Zinn said that to emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to deemphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice.  It serves unwittingly to justify what was done there.

I noticed the perceptional framework of heroes(Columbus) and their victims(Arawak) is only an aspect of a certain approach to the US history, in which the past is told from the point of view of government, conquerors, diplomats, and leaders.

Haiku op. 257

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a gourd swings
slowly in the wind


eye on genesis

Haiku op. 268

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black summer clouds
carry the sun away


croaks the raven like Poe's

Haiku op. 267

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the motorbike's engine
is still hot


summer rain

Haiku op. 266

(photo) azalea








look down
various flowers of umbrellas -
summer rain

Haiku op. 265

(photo) willow and boat








alone in the room
I remembered the lake


the wind of greens

Haiku op. 264

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fresh greens -
today's suitable for
Mozart's music

Haiku op. 263

(photo) Tone river








the summer cloud, 
as large as a country,
is falling down to the sea

Haiku op. 262

(photo) wisteria flowers








a quiet old couple
under the greens


eternity called time

Haiku op. 261

(photo) fallen leaves in early summer








kiwi fruit in the yoghurt
is having she without words -
the proof of the deliciousness

Haiku op. 260

(photo) my favorite drink, summer for a beer




ambulance sirens -
another life, another death
in the night of greens

Haiku op. 259

(photo) early summer flower

offer my seat

to an old lady

Mather's Day

Haiku op. 258

(photo) wisteria flowers

she has her bare foot

in the quiet lake

the winds of greens 

Haiku op. 257

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a ball

flys to the sun

Children's Day

Haiku op. 256

(photo) greens and the old man

the salesgirl counts the change

with a smile

May Day

Haiku op. 255

(photo) wisteria blossoms

field mustard in the breeze
 

the boy looks back

on his whole life

Haiku op. 254

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a boy has noticed

winter's beauty

with Vivaldi

Haiku op. 253

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spring moon

carps' jumpings here and there

in the river