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Haiku poems composed during the Imperial Pilgrimage Route tour October 2008
At the Big Cloud Pass
Sunlight filtering through trees
From darkness to light
Through cathedral trees
Walking between temple and shrine
Our souls tramp upwards
Travelling hopefully together
Ever thankful for falling rain
Steps towards sunlight
The path takes two ways
Toad jumps, crabs crawl, the birds fly
Which is right, which wrong?
Hestor
To get nine virtues
I walked the Kumano Kodo
Ah! Ah! Ooh! More sake
Sit on a floor to eat
Nowhere for my legs or feet
Heaven is a chair
Persimmon and mandarins
Japanese coffee and friendly people
Yamanobe no michi
Mountain museum
Hidden in the lovely hills
What is your dark secret?
Yve
Put bags in the van
And all drive up to the trail
Then walk like a snail
Water running to a pond
Carp eat all my different rice
They think its nice
A crab and a frog
Cross my path time after time
But not a snake please
Mac
Cedars overhead
Mosses, lichens slip underfoot
Cooling stones to hug
Futon are the rage
Tatami mats fit the room
And buckwheat calms all
Angela
The warm autumn days
We share, deep in the forest
Kumano Kodo
Follow the river
To travel, not to arrive
To see, not to look
Bob