Sketching Lesson

                             Several times at the YT Asilomar Haiku Retreat,                 jhhymas

Carolyn Fitz has given us lessons 

in sketching with the Pilot Parallel Pen. 

I think this was the first one. 

Look at how we are paying attention!

Since then, many of us delight in using this sketching tool.

Here, I  was trying the experiment of photographing a group using a fisheye lens;

I did manage to include a lot of dear friends, some of them now gone.

a real summer downpour

the writing brush never drying

for a thousand words

Buson

a hundred day summer training period

my mind is steady

my inkstone does not hesitate

Buson

Copying sutras in my summer retreat

I use my writing brushes

to count the days

Buson

The classic Japanese haiku poet Buson (1716-1783) 

was also renowned as a painter and calligrapher. 

Here are some of his haiku on that topic from 

Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson; 

translated by W. S. Merwin and Takako Lento, 

Copper Canyon Press, 2013.