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Wakana New Herbs

03 Sunday Sep 2017

Posted by Candia in Animals, art, Arts, Literature, mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Romance, Writing

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boussokusekika, Kashiwagi, Murasaki Shikibu, New Herbs, Tale of Genji, Third princess, Wakanajo

Tale of Genji painting detail

 

Third Princess, your pet

climbed onto the balcony.

Oh, Kashiwagi,

why should you desire it when

you are not a cat lover?

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Hanachirusato

03 Sunday Sep 2017

Posted by Candia in art, Arts, Literature, mythology, Nostalgia, Poetry, Relationships, Romance, Writing

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boussokusekika, cuckoo, Hanachirusata, orange blossom, Tale of Genji

 

So unassuming,

you were a Falling Flower.

A cuckoo beckons;

I smell the orange blossoms

and fond memories flood back.

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Hahakigi: The Broom Tree

28 Monday Aug 2017

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boussokusekika, Tale of Genji, The Broom Tree, Utagawa Toyokuni, Utsusemi

(Artist:Utagawa Toyokuni; Denman Waldo Ross collection, Museum Fine Arts, Boston)

 

Vice-governor’s wife

was as a broom tree growing

in a shabby yard.

She chose her safe marriage,

for rank dictated conduct.

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Kifune Jinja

11 Friday Aug 2017

Posted by Candia in mythology, Philosophy, Poetry, Social Comment, Writing

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boussokusekika, Kifune jinja, oni, The Hour of the OX

(Creative Commons.  Photo by Chi King, 2010)

 

Concluding The Twenty Two Japanese Shrines series.

 

Candles on your head;

curse at The Hour of the Ox.

The resident god

will transform to an oni*

and exact vengeance for you.

 

  • demon

If you have enjoyed these recent series, then you might like

the Hiroshige poems on  my site ( October 2016)

 

Cindy, you have read them, I know!

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Niukawakami jinja

10 Thursday Aug 2017

Posted by Candia in Community, Environment, mythology, Nature, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Writing

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boussokusekika, dragon gods, Niukawakami, weather

Niukawakami Shrine.jpg

(Photo by Bakkai, 2007, at Japanese Wikipedia)

 

Three shrines deify

different dragon gods.  They

regulate weather:

offer black horses for rain;

white horses ensure sunshine.

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Kitano- Tenmangu

09 Wednesday Aug 2017

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boussokusekika, geiko, Kitano-Tenmangu, maiko

Kitano-tenmangu Kyoto Japan41s3s4592.jpg

(Creative Commons.  Photo by 663highland, 19/2/11)

 

Angry bureaucrat-

scholar and poet exile –

has to be appeased.

Geiko and maiko serve tea

beneath blossom and lanterns.

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Yasaka jinja

08 Tuesday Aug 2017

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boussokusekika, Gion Matsuri, hoko, palanquins, yama, Yasaka jinja

Yasaka jinja.jpg

(Photo: Creative Commons)

 

The gods’ palanquins

were paraded through the streets:

the epidemic

stemmed. Giant hoko and yama*

commemorate shown mercy.

 

  • floats

.

 

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Hirota jinja

08 Tuesday Aug 2017

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Amaterasu, azaleas, boussokusekika, Hirota jinja

Hirota-Shrine-Main-Building.jpg

(Orig uploader -Whogue at English Wikipedia, 7/2007;

Photo by W Hogue, 2007; transferred by Kurpfalzbilder.de)

 

Famed azaleas

grace the place where the Empress

obeyed the goddess.

Amaterasu declared

she needed a shrine.

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Hiyoshi Taisha

06 Sunday Aug 2017

Posted by Candia in Architecture, Community, History, Language, mythology, Poetry, Politics, Social Comment, Writing

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boussokusekika, Daimyo, Hiyoshi taisha, Tenka Fubu

And now for the final Eight, Lower rank, in my series of boussokusekika

on the twenty two shrines:

Hiyoshi-taisha nishihongu-honden01n4592.jpg

(Wikimedia Commons Photo:

663highland; June 2008.)

 

Hiyoshi Taisha

 

Your shrine was once burnt

when a Daimyo killed his foes

and yet he was blessed:

unification expressed

in ‘Tenka Fubu.’*

 

  • ‘Rule the Empire by Force!’

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Sumiyosha taisha

06 Sunday Aug 2017

Posted by Candia in art, Arts, mythology, Poetry, Religion, Writing

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boussokusekika, hakushaseishou, Sumiyoshi

(Creative Commons.  Image by KENPEI, June 2007)

 

Sumiyoshi Taisha2.jpg

 

The Sumiyoshi

are the gods of war on sea.

The shrine’s parkland

(hakushaseishou landscape)

inspired works of art.

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My name is Candia. Its initial consonant alliterates with “cow” and there are connotations with the adjective “candid.” I started writing this blog in the summer of 2012 and focused on satire at the start.

Interspersed was ironic news comment, reviews and poetry.

Over the years I have won some international poetry competitions and have published in reputable small presses, as well as reviewing and reading alongside well- established poets. I wrote under my own name then, but Candia has taken me over as an online persona. Having brought out a serious anthology last year called 'Its Own Place' which features poetry of an epiphanal nature, I was able to take part in an Arts and Spirituality series of lectures in Winchester in 2016.

Lately I have been experimenting with boussekusekeika, sestinas, rhyme royale, villanelles and other forms. I am exploring Japanese themes at the moment, my interest having been re-ignited by the recent re-evaluations of Hokusai.

Thank you to all my committed followers whose loyalty has encouraged me to keep writing. It has been exciting to meet some of you in the flesh- in venues as far flung as Melbourne and Sydney!

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