Statues, paintings with religious motives

[Gabi Greve]

church window --
Christ reaching out through
metal bars

Photo and Haiku : Isabelle Prondzynski

Jesus and Christmas Haiku
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/03/christmas.html


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By chance I found this page in the morning, and want to share some with you here.

I feel like sitting
in the hands of the Big Buddha  -
basking in the winter sun

daibutsu no te ni aru omoi hinataboko
Takaha Shugyo

. . . . .

daibutsu no kata hada no yuki toke ni keri

on one shoulder
of the Great Buddha
the snow has thawed ...

Masaoka Shiki

. . . . .


There are a few famous huge statues of Buddha in Japan, some in temples, some outside, some chisled in cliffs ...

Basho, Issa, Shiki and other poets visited them and even today, thousands combine tourism with the feeling of the presece of a higher power ...

Many temples have a haiku box near the entry, where people can write a haiku and drop it. The temple will publish it in a monthly magazine.


More about the Big Buddha Haiku is here for now
http://wkdfestivalsaijiki.blogspot.com/2007/06/daibutsu-and-hotoke.html

The Saijiki category observances lists many names of temples and shrines in variuos kigo
details are here
http://wkdfestivalsaijiki.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html


Do you have any haiku about a religious statue of your region to share?
It could be inside a church or temple, or outside, for example a sait on a public well (Brunnenheiliger) or other.

I just wrote a haiku about Buddha statues on stamps the other day


travel the world
with Buddha stamps -
letter writing in spring


following Buddha -
my journey begins
with the first footprint




http://haikuandhappiness.blogspot.com/2011/03/stamps-with-statues.html


Do you have a favorite statue or painting with a religious theme and a haiku about it?
Gabi.

[onecloud]

how do you insert an image?

[Gabi Greve]

how do you insert an image?

You have to use an image which is already online somewhere, in a BLOG or a Photo album like FlickR.

copy the HTML of the image here and use the icon for "insert image", the first little one below the B to add the image code:

  without the 

•   it reads "img" and at the end "/img"
  
  That should do it.
  
  Gabi.
  

[onecloud]

this is marty,
thank you, I believe I can do that

[onecloud]

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/photo.php?fbid=211983722149112&set=a.208745329139618.61265.208652469148904&theater

I am a spiritualist who is born a christian; studied hinduism, buddhisim, natural and aboriginal religions.
I am moved by religious imagery from many religions. In this image I present the turtle as the universe the cosmic consciousness is represented as the eye of the creator, in which the maddona sits in a buddhist pose.
the text I placed with it addresses beginning and is about my personal relationship with my mother who gave birth to me on april 16.

[Gabi Greve]

You must use the   html.jpg   for the photo to show.You get this when clicking on  the image, then go to PROPERTY



Gabi

[onecloud]

Gabi,
thank you again,  I will note your instructions.
marty 

[DavidGrayson]

Hi Gabi,

I like the haiku and image by Isabelle Prondzynski. I've made several attempts to write haiku about stained glass, but I haven't quite gotten where I wanted to. Isabelle does it.

[AlanSummers]

Hi David,

Here's a stained glass haiku from my wife:


early dark
the cathedral visible
only as windows


Karen Hoy

Another Country, Haiku Poetry from Wales (2011)
Gomer Press ISBN: 9781848513068
Edited by Nigel Jenkins, Ken Jones and Lynne Rees

previously published in
Blithe Spirit Vol. 13 No. 1, (2003), ISSN 1353-3320

I've made several attempts to write haiku about stained glass, but I haven't quite gotten where I wanted to.

[John McManus]

Hi Alan, I love that stained glass haiku by Karen. Thanks for sharing it!

Regards,
John

[DavidGrayson]

Thanks, Alan. I love Karen's haiku. Thanks for sharing.

[Don Baird]

Hello,

I haven't written a haiku about stained glass but this thread has sure encouraged me to do so.  Great thread ... I'll be back for more.

Thanks,

Don