Tag Archives: Myth

Star River

A thousand-year buddha sleeps in kingfisher green, a clams breath traps a seagull in a maze of pagodas. An eagles wings bridge the earth and the star river, white egrets ride the path of the azure dipper. ~~~ Image found … Continue reading

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Dragon Lightening Spirals

 Where cloud wings arc from plain to dragon scale ridges tiger thunder roars fracture the vast heaven, dragon lightening spirals ripple through the astral cracks, a white mountain cat gazes over a village. ~~~ Image found here: http://www.obakemono.com/obake/hakutaku/ Day 5 … Continue reading

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In Kingfisher Green

Azure colossus’ trace lines across desert sands, in kingfisher green voices spill from another space. A dharma dolls fire spirals a waterfall heavenward, luminescent nothings dance through a ring of shipwrecks in ocean deep. ~~~ Image found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konjaku_Hyakki_Sh%C5%ABi Again … Continue reading

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Blue Thunder Fire

Ten thousand years of snow covers the pass, a dragon’s roar distorts and splinters. Great ridge lines burn with blue thunder fire, the arc of a bone bends hell itself. ~~~ Image found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazu_Hyakki_Yagy%C5%8D This makes zero sense, and … Continue reading

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Yuki Onna

A frozen corpse rests on white azure yet all around ten thousand snow flakes undisturbed. ~~~ A frozen corpse on an azure tundra, face blanketed by an absent gasp. In all directions ten thousand snow flakes have escaped the attention … Continue reading

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Kirin

Flame flicked through bamboo groves. Light breaks on jade peaks. A shard of bark without inscription rests under bamboo flowers that contains the universe, and everything outside of it. No tracks line the ground, no burn marks the leaves. ~~~ … Continue reading

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Ancient Dragon

Ancient dragons forever voyage crosses into times stream. In, out, breath fades, trees return to idleness. Scales part from skin, drift down on the azure flows. Skeleton crashes into ground, sea scatters over the land. Wraith bone mountains rise in … Continue reading

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A Catfish Muddies A Clear Pond

Clear pond muddied by a red tail swish ~~~ A great ruler tends to melon patches on empty cloud peaks, shower of arrows over mulberry groves, birds of flame tumble, and tumble, the man whose forgotten the words speaks to … Continue reading

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View from the Burned Out Tower (Extra)

River turtle scrambles from vine to water, sunlight renders gossamer veils in twain. Cranes fly north to jade peaks, and a dragons endeavour is forever unending. Sun hangs in azure clarity, Burned Tower now black in golden yellow. Empty cloud … Continue reading

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Herd Boy and Weaver

Gazing at Star Fall Hollow lake catches star fall from heavens peaks, innumerable still shine in pregnant emptiness. Gazing and gazing, how many magpies span such fathomless depths? Left by the Shore, for Who May Find It Dragons race along … Continue reading

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