Kodama

It’s April of 2023 and Day 11 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 11: Kodama

Culture: Tree spirit from Japanese culture

Description: Kodama’s inhibit in trees (usually that are older). Cutting a Kodama is a curse. The knowledge of Kodama living in a tree is passed on from one generation to another. They are neutral and can be friendly. Such trees are still identified and tied with a shimenawa rope. A movie named “Princess Mononoke”, has depictions of kodama as in above picture.   

kodama

Take a walk,
Think nothing.
Watch waters,
Think nothing.
Feel the space,
Think nothing.
You will realize,
Nothing’s everything.

I wonder and I guess, we have put money on all the wrong things. The most satisfying moments are still free.

Image References: By Toriyama Sekien – scanned from ISBN 4-0440-5101-1., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1255605  and a picture from the movie ‘Princess Mononoke’

Kalon

Its April of 2019 and Day 11 of A to Z Challenge. I am doing Foreign word/phrase a day and 8 line poem for it.

Word/Phrase: kalon
Language: Greek
Meaning: means beautiful. In Ancient Greek philosophy it was used to refer to an absolute ideal or perfect natural beauty, both physically and morally.

Poem:
fragments of life,
that smell like:
a stranger,
an old soul,
away from normal,
absurd graffiti,
blank wallpapers.
there, life echoes: kalon.

Interpretation:
Those pieces of life that make us feel like a stranger, an old soul, abnormal, a confused graffiti, messed up wallpapers etc are the ones that add beauty to existence.

Kind from A to Z

Its April of 2018 and Day 11 of A to Z Challenge. I am doing ‘Emotion’ a day picked from the bag of life, with an 8 line poem and a thought.

K is Kind.

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Poem:
It’s simple,
It’s significant,
It’s kind of rare,
Powerful share,
It’s named – ‘Kindness’.
Season thyself,
With kindness,
For it will echo till infinity.

Thought: