Mount Fuji
spring rain
trickling into the wasp's nest
a leaky roof
the roof has been repaired
the wasps eradicated
blooming wildly
among the peach trees
first cherry blossoms
it is my dream to one day
have a few fruit trees growing
butterflies and birds
restlessly they rise up
a cloud of flowers
these are the best things in spring
not so a mind painted black
coming to the eye
especially at this time
May's Mount Fuji
I hoped to visit sometime
must be content with pictures
life's journey
plowing the patch of rice field
back and forth
sometimes best to look forward
to simple things in our lives
the lettuce
leaves are just as green
eggplant soup
I must remember to try
vegetables for cooking
~Basho & Cie~
Notes:
The Hokku stanzas of these Renga were written by Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694). The Ageku stanzas were whipped up by me.
The Ageku of the third verse references the fact that I experience my worst depressive states in the spring. When the hearts of normal people turn to lurrrrve and all that happy crappy, my psyche turns to a dark tomb while the flowers bloom and the birds sing and I just want to sleep forever but usually don't sleep very well. I tend to get the side-eye from people when I try to talk about spring depression. "What do you mean you get depressed in the spring? Springtime is happy time! Normal depressed people get depressed in the WINTER!"
You see, I don't even know how to do depression right, even though I've been doing it my entire life!
I love the down-to-earth approach, Cara, and agree that it's 'sometimes best to look forward to simple things in our lives'!
ReplyDeleteThanks. It's something I've realized more and more as I've gotten older. I no longer crave chaos as I did when I was younger. That was, in part, the untreated bipolar disorder driving me, I think.
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