Dreaming of JapanInside a green-white lotusMy soul a wind chime ©️ By AndreaCConnollyRemembering a summer day in July 2025 at Byodoin Temple in Uji, Kyoto, Japan, where they have their own Byodoin lotus flowers in greenish white. 23.3.2026 photograph by AndreaCConnolly byodoin Temple Uji
Once in a lifetime
You go on a journey
That changes your essence
#AndreaCConnolly … More Once in a lifetime
The toneIn your voiceIngrained sacredHeld by river waterMotions of convergenceMeeting moments Precious gingko treeYour two-fold leavesFan tie my infant heart © #AndreaCConnolly10.10.2021 #poetry
Easter at home In prime so highThe sea of treesCriss-crossed searchOf unseen vistasA doe path hidden Found in mudflatsYearning unknownOf the expanseQuest for wide openSpaces of mirrored skies The soul of a sea shellDrawn to ancestral ocean © #AndreaCConnolly2.4.2021 Good Friday
{“Lightning flash Flying toward the darkness Night-heron’s voice” Matsuo Basho/ 969} Thunder arrow Propelled from darkness Blue heron’s beak © #AndreaCConnolly 9.7.2020 (Reading Basho day and night)
Reading Rilke by daylight Roses circle Petals fall upwards Chalice filled View inverted The mirror of everything A child still Folds in time Wing span of a hawk Fledgling ever Clouds words Birds in the rose bush Phrased cumulus © #AndreaCConnolly 17.5.2020
Captain´s Log 