{"id":245,"date":"2012-03-20T22:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T06:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2012-03-20T22:24:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T06:24:22","slug":"lotus-and-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Lotus and Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"

My painting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lotus and Butterfly\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\"Lotus<\/a>

154. Lotus and Butterfly Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie<\/p><\/div>\n

was invited to this project.<\/p>\n

Please take a look.<\/p>\n

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Dear Friends,<\/p>\n

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Please share widely this Collective Spring Poem (Haiga) that now includes close to 100 poets and artists from all over the globe. We all are truly one. We all share the same dreams and aspirations of world peace, tolerance, and understanding with the whole humanity in balance with nature. There are no borders for poetry. Best wishes to you all–Francisco X. Alarcon <franciscoxalarcon@gmail.cpm><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/francisco-x-alarcon\/share-widely-this-collective-spring-poem-haiga-in-celebration-of-the-vernal-equi\/10150724811015734<\/a><\/p>\n

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Share Widely this Collective Spring Poem (Haiga) in Celebration of the Vernal Equinox and World Poetry Day (March 21, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mariko Sumikura chose my “Lotus and Butterfly” for her poem:<\/p>\n

HAIKU\u00e3\u20ac\u20ac\u00e3\u20ac\u20ac\u00e4\u00bf\u00b3\u00e5\u008f\u00a5
\nMariko Sumikura \u00e3\u0081\u2122\u00e3\u0081\u00bf\u00e3\u0081\u008f\u00e3\u201a\u2030\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u201a\u0160\u00e3\u0081\u201c<\/h6>\n

Falling butterfly
\nSpirit of the lotus
\nEmbrace in thin air<\/p>\n

\u00e8\u009d\u00b6\u00e3\u0081\u00a7\u00e3\u0081\u2122\u00e3\u201a\u2030
\n\u00e9\u00a6\u2122\u00e3\u201a\u0160\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e8\u0090\u00bd\u00e3\u0081\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u2039
\n\u00e8\u201c\u00ae\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e7\u00b2\u00be<\/p>\n

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We all pray for Peace to celebrate spring.<\/p>\n

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My painting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lotus and Butterfly\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was invited to this project. Please take a look.   Dear Friends,   Please share widely this Collective Spring Poem (Haiga) that now includes close to 100 poets and artists from all over the globe. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings-watercolor-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}