Nishiyama Sōin: Untitled ["Settling, white dew"]

                                                 Settling, white dew
                                                 does not discriminate,
                                                 each drop its home



Untitled ["Settling, white dew"] by Nishiyama Sōin, translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill. From The Poetry of Zen, translated and edited by Sam Hamill and J. P. Seaton. © Shambhala Publications, 2007.  

Photography credit: "Green Dew," by unknown photographer (originally color).