Source: Reuters/Umit Bektas, 05/01/2011
... May Day protesters in Ankara ...
May Day march
the red tulips next door
are blooming
.
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Saturday, July 31, 2010
empty cocoon...
this iris hosting
a stray moth
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For Haiku Heights, Prompt: Metamorphosis
this iris hosting
a stray moth
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For Haiku Heights, Prompt: Metamorphosis
Sunday, July 18, 2010
In the park. an artist painting on canvas. on her left arm ...
this meadow
awash with wildflowers...
the artist's palette
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For One Single Impression, Prompt: Preponderance
this meadow
awash with wildflowers...
the artist's palette
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For One Single Impression, Prompt: Preponderance
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
strip dancing
the last rose petal
she peels off
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Edited. First published at The Shiki Monthly Kukai, June 2010 (3rd, Kigo Section: Nakedness)
the last rose petal
she peels off
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Edited. First published at The Shiki Monthly Kukai, June 2010 (3rd, Kigo Section: Nakedness)
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
but today
the grass is tinted pink...
cherry petals
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*The Shiki Kukai Monthly, April 2010
the grass is tinted pink...
cherry petals
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*The Shiki Kukai Monthly, April 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Vietnam Wall
the cherry blossoms
drop by too
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Published in "From the notebook," Asahi Haikuist Network, Asahi Shimbun/International Herald Tribune, April 2, 2010.
the cherry blossoms
drop by too
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Published in "From the notebook," Asahi Haikuist Network, Asahi Shimbun/International Herald Tribune, April 2, 2010.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Haiku 111509
taps*
as she lays her rose
a sigh
*A tune performed with a bugle to signal lights-out; also performed in military funerals
Edited; original first posted in The Four Seasons of Haiku
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Recently, we read the following headline: "Tearful Oprah announces end to iconic talk show"
taps*
as she lays her rose
a sigh
*A tune performed with a bugle to signal lights-out; also performed in military funerals
Edited; original first posted in The Four Seasons of Haiku
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Recently, we read the following headline: "Tearful Oprah announces end to iconic talk show"
Friday, July 10, 2009
Haiku 071009
she flits among
the rose bushes next --
butterflies
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Recently we read the following:
New York Times: "U.S. Considers Curbs on Speculative Trading of Oil" by Edmund L. Andrews
“Reacting to the violent swings in oil prices in recent months, federal regulators announced on Tuesday that they were considering new restrictions on “speculative” traders in markets for oil, natural gas and other energy products…
“Since Mr. Obama took office, the Justice Department has stepped up antitrust enforcement activities, abandoning many legal doctrines adopted by the Bush administration…
“The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it would consider imposing volume limits on trading of energy futures by purely financial investors and that it already has adopted tougher information requirements aimed at identifying the role of hedge funds and traders who swap contracts outside of regulated exchanges like the New York Mercantile Exchange.
“ “My firm belief is that we must aggressively use all existing authorities to ensure market integrity,’ said Gary Gensler, chairman of the commission, in a statement. He said regulators would also examine whether to impose federal ‘speculative limits’ on futures contracts for energy products…
“Mr. Gensler appears focused on two basic goals. The first is to limit the volume of trading by purely financial investors, the “speculators,” as opposed to businesses like airlines or oil companies that consume or produce oil and want to minimize their exposure to big changes in price…”
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And we thought:
…To ordinary consumers, moderating the oil speculators’ feeding frenzy at this time will be a welcome move. Already financially-burdened households need some relief from rising gas and energy costs and their effects on the price of consumer goods. The industries that use oil products heavily need some relief, too. Long-term goals before short-term gains...
she flits among
the rose bushes next --
butterflies
***************
Recently we read the following:
New York Times: "U.S. Considers Curbs on Speculative Trading of Oil" by Edmund L. Andrews
“Reacting to the violent swings in oil prices in recent months, federal regulators announced on Tuesday that they were considering new restrictions on “speculative” traders in markets for oil, natural gas and other energy products…
“Since Mr. Obama took office, the Justice Department has stepped up antitrust enforcement activities, abandoning many legal doctrines adopted by the Bush administration…
“The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it would consider imposing volume limits on trading of energy futures by purely financial investors and that it already has adopted tougher information requirements aimed at identifying the role of hedge funds and traders who swap contracts outside of regulated exchanges like the New York Mercantile Exchange.
“ “My firm belief is that we must aggressively use all existing authorities to ensure market integrity,’ said Gary Gensler, chairman of the commission, in a statement. He said regulators would also examine whether to impose federal ‘speculative limits’ on futures contracts for energy products…
“Mr. Gensler appears focused on two basic goals. The first is to limit the volume of trading by purely financial investors, the “speculators,” as opposed to businesses like airlines or oil companies that consume or produce oil and want to minimize their exposure to big changes in price…”
***************
And we thought:
…To ordinary consumers, moderating the oil speculators’ feeding frenzy at this time will be a welcome move. Already financially-burdened households need some relief from rising gas and energy costs and their effects on the price of consumer goods. The industries that use oil products heavily need some relief, too. Long-term goals before short-term gains...
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Haiku 042309
morning rain --
rabbit digging up
tulip bed
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Recently, we read the following:
Washington Post: “Defense Chief Gates Says He Backed Releasing CIA Memos” (by Ann Scott Tyson)
“Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates indicated Thursday that he supported the release of sensitive memos on detainee interrogation methods last week because he viewed their ultimate disclosure as inevitable. Gates, a former CIA director, said his foremost concern was that CIA officers who had used the interrogation techniques should be protected from prosecution.
“Another concern, Gates said, was the possibility that the Obama administration's release of the memos would cause a "backlash in the Middle East" that could adversely affect U.S. forces operating there. In discussions, he said, senior administration officials realized the disclosure could be "used by al-Qaeda" to generate opposition against the United States....
" ‘All of us wrestled with it,’ he said when asked whether he personally supported the release of the memos. But he added that his own view was shaped by his belief that the methods would ultimately become known....”
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And we thought:
….This article reports that Mr. Gates’ support of the memos’ release “was shaped by his belief that the methods would ultimately become known.” If that was the extent of the Defense head’s concern, maybe the President needs to have a serious one-on-one with him.
We thought the administration disclosed the “torture” memos not simply because their disclosure was inevitable. We thought they were disclosed because the administration found the subject and the results of the memos – the justification of torture, the order to use torture, and the actual use of torture – to be essentially immoral and reprehensible, and that the administration wanted to clearly dissociate itself from the Bush-Cheney regime on this matter. We thought that, ultimately, the primary concern was that the Obama administration wanted the country to regain its “moral bearings”….
morning rain --
rabbit digging up
tulip bed
***************
Recently, we read the following:
Washington Post: “Defense Chief Gates Says He Backed Releasing CIA Memos” (by Ann Scott Tyson)
“Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates indicated Thursday that he supported the release of sensitive memos on detainee interrogation methods last week because he viewed their ultimate disclosure as inevitable. Gates, a former CIA director, said his foremost concern was that CIA officers who had used the interrogation techniques should be protected from prosecution.
“Another concern, Gates said, was the possibility that the Obama administration's release of the memos would cause a "backlash in the Middle East" that could adversely affect U.S. forces operating there. In discussions, he said, senior administration officials realized the disclosure could be "used by al-Qaeda" to generate opposition against the United States....
" ‘All of us wrestled with it,’ he said when asked whether he personally supported the release of the memos. But he added that his own view was shaped by his belief that the methods would ultimately become known....”
***************
And we thought:
….This article reports that Mr. Gates’ support of the memos’ release “was shaped by his belief that the methods would ultimately become known.” If that was the extent of the Defense head’s concern, maybe the President needs to have a serious one-on-one with him.
We thought the administration disclosed the “torture” memos not simply because their disclosure was inevitable. We thought they were disclosed because the administration found the subject and the results of the memos – the justification of torture, the order to use torture, and the actual use of torture – to be essentially immoral and reprehensible, and that the administration wanted to clearly dissociate itself from the Bush-Cheney regime on this matter. We thought that, ultimately, the primary concern was that the Obama administration wanted the country to regain its “moral bearings”….
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Haiku 032209-a
Sentosa Island
"lets a hundred flowers bloom"
striped hyenas
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Recently, we read the following:
Washington Times: "Singapore court rules [Wall Street] Journal editor in contempt"
" A Singapore judge ruled a senior Wall Street Journal editor was in contempt of court Thursday for two editorials and a letter to the editor published last year about the city-state's judiciary, the attorney general's office said. Prosecutors said the editorials and letter questioned the independence of the judiciary from the ruling People's Action Party and that they implied that the country's courts stifle dissent.... High Court Justice Tay Yong Kwang fined [Melanie] Kirkpatrick 10,000 Singapore dollars ($6,549)....
"Journalist rights groups claim the government uses lawsuits to quash dissent. Singapore's leaders have sued journalists and political opponents several times in recent years for alleged defamation, winning damages against Bloomberg, The Economist and the International Herald Tribune.
"The government's harassment of the Wall Street Journal indicates a chronic inability to tolerate criticism and is very harmful to the country's image," Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said.
"The New York-based group Human Rights Watch urged Singapore last year to stop using defamation lawsuits to stifle criticism and bankrupt opposition politicians, citing a High Court decision in October to order Chee Soon Juan and his Singapore Democratic Party to pay $416,000 to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, Lee Kuan Yew, in damages from a 2006 case...."
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And we thought:
.... We've marveled at how clean, orderly, safe, and prosperous Singapore is -- a true tourism haven with great hotels, fine restaurants, unique places of interest, and department stores of well-known, international consumer brands and labels.
"Singapore is such a 'fine' city,'' all Singapore tourists and visitors who've seen the ubiquitous "signs" will assure you -- with a knowing smile. And some will add, softly, that it is essentially a benign dictatorship -- but a dictatorship just the same.
How much might a people give up for a "clean, orderly, safe, and prosperous" place to live? Should one culture measure another using the former's own standards of behavior? Or are there universal standards one can in fact invoke?....
Sentosa Island
"lets a hundred flowers bloom"
striped hyenas
***************
Recently, we read the following:
Washington Times: "Singapore court rules [Wall Street] Journal editor in contempt"
" A Singapore judge ruled a senior Wall Street Journal editor was in contempt of court Thursday for two editorials and a letter to the editor published last year about the city-state's judiciary, the attorney general's office said. Prosecutors said the editorials and letter questioned the independence of the judiciary from the ruling People's Action Party and that they implied that the country's courts stifle dissent.... High Court Justice Tay Yong Kwang fined [Melanie] Kirkpatrick 10,000 Singapore dollars ($6,549)....
"Journalist rights groups claim the government uses lawsuits to quash dissent. Singapore's leaders have sued journalists and political opponents several times in recent years for alleged defamation, winning damages against Bloomberg, The Economist and the International Herald Tribune.
"The government's harassment of the Wall Street Journal indicates a chronic inability to tolerate criticism and is very harmful to the country's image," Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said.
"The New York-based group Human Rights Watch urged Singapore last year to stop using defamation lawsuits to stifle criticism and bankrupt opposition politicians, citing a High Court decision in October to order Chee Soon Juan and his Singapore Democratic Party to pay $416,000 to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, Lee Kuan Yew, in damages from a 2006 case...."
***************
And we thought:
.... We've marveled at how clean, orderly, safe, and prosperous Singapore is -- a true tourism haven with great hotels, fine restaurants, unique places of interest, and department stores of well-known, international consumer brands and labels.
"Singapore is such a 'fine' city,'' all Singapore tourists and visitors who've seen the ubiquitous "signs" will assure you -- with a knowing smile. And some will add, softly, that it is essentially a benign dictatorship -- but a dictatorship just the same.
How much might a people give up for a "clean, orderly, safe, and prosperous" place to live? Should one culture measure another using the former's own standards of behavior? Or are there universal standards one can in fact invoke?....
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