As a blogger-inspired initiative to honor the spirit and sacrifices of the people in Japan’s stricken Tohoku region, we are pleased to announce:
Cities of Green Leaves
Ginko-no-Kukai
Ginko-no-Kukai
May 14 and 15, 2011
We encourage everyone to join in an international nature walk to be held May 14 - 15 followed by an international haiku contest.
image©With Words
artwork by Dave Alderslade
The address to submit your poems will be posted here this third weekend of May.
Please return often until then for further updates and poetry.
We look forward to walking with you!
Just a bit more information below as well.
Just a bit more information below as well.
We invite you to walk with us on those days, collaborating with like-minded poets and bloggers in combining their skills and talents, enter your haiku in a peer judged contest, and take the opportunity to offer aid and support to our friends in Japan in a consensus of thought, well wishes and kinetic energies to occur simultaneously around the globe.
It’s no surprise the kukai’s topic will take its cue from Sendai, Japan’s annual Aoba Matsuri Festival, an event held originally to honor the city’s founder, Date Masamune.
The date has now become an annual celebration with thousands of visitors, a parade, sparrow dance and tree lined streets as part of the festival each year to rejoice in the arrival of spring’s new greenery and rebirth.
You may choose any place to hold your ginko walk, as long as it holds the attributes to inspire many to compassionate action in the beauty of poetry, and the celebration of the renewing power of nature’s seasons.
Chin P'ing Mei
my sorrowing heart in need
of plum blossom
my sorrowing heart in need
of plum blossom
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1 comment:
That's lovely, Alan!
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