Meet my new favourite word – Komorebi!
It is when sunlight filters through the trees – the interplay between the light and the leaves.
Can I just say, how poetic is has made my moments especially in the ongoing monsoon season? I adore getting right under the tree and look up to trace imaginary threads stringing their way to the top. For some moments, I feel like the richest person in the world as I behold the sight of the streams of sunlight kissing the droplets to give them an appearance of a frozen shower of stars!
Any new, quirky, unusual word caught your eye lately? 🙂
An Armchair Perfectionist 
Thank you, I also know a new word now.
And I can imagine the feeling that you described, it’s quite passionate, or Shall I say romantic!
At any rate sunlight in rain is auspicious. When I was small it’s said that it shows the fox has got married.
Enjoy and continue to share your masterful skills in raising passion
👌👍
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That sounds like a wonderful story 🙂 A fox getting married … So interesting!
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It is interesting> Dont know the significance, but may signify an unusual thing.
In malayalam we have song- kakkakkum poochakkum kalyanam (crow and cat getting married)
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Glas
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And now I am in love with it too. So now I have two recent love, a poet and a poetic word 😀
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He he! That’s a productive day indeed
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Oh yes absolutely 🙂
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Some things need words for us to appreciate their beauty further. Is Komorebi English? Sounds like something from Eastern India. 😀 I came across this word ‘Pulchritude’ in a class. It means beauty. 🙂
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Komorebi is a Japanese term 🙂 Pulchritude sounds so delicate!! Thanks for sharing.
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I hope that when you have finished staring up the trees in wonderment at their height; the detailing in their trunks; the leaf canopy overhead; the arrangement, and sometimes perfect symmetry of their branches; the light filtering through, and perhaps even the sounds of creatures whose world is high over your head. I hope that when you turn away and happen to notice the ground, that you are in awe at what it can produce if allowed to do so. I hope that before you leave that place, you will have hugged at least one tree! 🙂 Have a wonderful day. 🙂
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That was such a heartfelt and beautiful comment, Colin 🙂 You have captured the wonder of the woods and trees in the most magical manner.
We forget to thank the Earth for the wondrous fruits it bears for us. Thank you for reminding me of that.
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Love the word, Prajakta, and the entire post 🙂 Thank you for sharing 🙂
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Thanks a lot Deepika! 🙂
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You’re most welcome, dear 😊
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Landscape photographers would love this word 🙂
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I am sure of that 🙂
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Oh that’s a great word! I love it! That phenomenon is one of my faves. Never can capture it as pretty as it is in my eyes.
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I swear!! I try to hold on to those images as long as possible and bring back on days that require a little cheering up.
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Now that is a lovely word for sure.. and you are right it is bilss to see the wonders of nature
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Thank you Bikramjit 🙂 Glad to see you feel the same.
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Ha, what a cool new word to add to my repertoire.
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It really is an amazing find!
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I guess what they say is right, there is a word for everything we see or feel. We just have to search for it hard enough ! That is such a serene photo and that word has such a nice tinge! Loved it Prajakta ☺️
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I was thinking just the same when I stumbled on this word, Zee 🙂 Thanks a lot!
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One of my favorite words, too. And you’ve captured the feeling of komorebi so well in this picture. We have a lot of opportunity to catch komorebi with the great forests of the American Midwest, and I keep that in mind while hiking and blog-posting.
https://spiritinpolitics.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/photo-challenge-komorebi-or-dappled-light/
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Thanks a lot, Tom. I am just heading over to see your take – the city streets don’t give the same kind of opportunity to capture this moment.
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Your narration making the natural progression more beautiful, always amazing on words📝👌
Kibitzer the word i learnt some days back meaning something informal.
Have a great week ahead.Keep writing!! 🙂
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Nice. Reminds me of a word, not in sound but more in meaning – chiaroscuro, which refers to interplay of light and shade.
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One of my favorite things! Your poetry makes me want to spread a blanket under the trees and take a mini vacation.
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Sunlight through the leaves? How gorgeous is it. I wonder why we consider it gorgeous though… Because the pretty leaves look prettier backlit? Because they shade us? Because they split the rays of sun? Who cares… It just looks so pretty and you want to just laze around…
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