New Year's Dancers

[asakiyume]

The photo is by Wada Masahiro, from the photo essay "Northern Dancers: The Red-Crowned Cranes of Hokkaidō"



Breathing fire
into the frozen air
new year's dancers

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

How beautiful!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Aren't they?

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I am enchanted.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I was too. Little furnaces in them, like all of us warm-blooded creatures have, and they're out there dancing in the snow.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Those are cool-looking birds.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I agree!

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Thank you

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

My pleasure--wakanomori shared them with me.

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Such joy. Happy New Year to all of us, and may we dance together!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I like that wish--here's to dancing.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a breathtakingly beautiful photo!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? The breath as a reminder of the warm blood and beating hearts inside those birds.

[sovay]

Breathing fire
into the frozen air
new year's dancers

That's lovely.

Happy New Year!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wow!! That first one is amazing.

[wuweibaby.livejournal.com]

<3

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

♥

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Lovely - both the photo and the poem. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm somewhat embarrassed by the poem, it's like tying your sled to the Snow Queen's sleigh, but ... I went and did that, anyway.

The image I love not only for its grace and beauty but because that glowing breath reminds me of the warmth and vigorous aliveness of those cranes, who might otherwise be merely beautiful images. But they're not just that--they're alive, with hearts pounding and blood circulating and breath going in and out--amazing.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Just beautiful.

Happy new year to you and yours!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And to you and yours too!

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

That is staggering.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes--a miracle, as you said.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

What sort? :D

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is just stunningly beautiful... Thank you.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'll pass the thanks back to wakanomori, who shared the image with me!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

How gorgeous!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

yeah! a wonderful image