Feb 9 2010

springtime

    The temple bell stops. But the sound keeps coming out of the flowers.   Matsuo Basho           Its house abandoned, the garden has become home to butterflies.   Iio Sogi (1421-1502)  

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Jun 29 2009

buson

Plum-blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north.   Buson (1716-1783)       Continue reading

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May 4 2009

Takarai Kikaku

a summer shower — a woman sits alone gazing outside Takarai kikaku (1661-1707)

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Apr 14 2009

Akahito

I wish I were close To you as the wet skirt of A salt girl to her body. I think of you always.   Akahito (one Hundred Poems from the Japanese by Ken Rexroth)  

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Mar 18 2009

Boncho

        Nozawa Bonchō (野沢 凡兆 ?) (c.1640-1714) was a Japanese haikai poet. He was born in Kanazawa, and spent most of his life in Kyoto working as a doctor. Bonchō was one of Matsuo Bashō’s leading disciples and, together with Kyorai, he edited the Bashō school’s Monkey’s Raincoat (Sarumino) anthology of 1689. He participated in numerous [...]

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Mar 15 2009

spring…

    Spring air – Woven moon And plum scent Matsu Basho, 1644 ~ 1694       It’s been a beautiful day today here    

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Feb 7 2009

Partaw Naderi

      On a Colourful Morning by Partaw Naderi I kissed her – her whole body shivered Like a branch of almond blossom in the wind Like the moon, like a star trembling on the water I kissed her – her whole body shivered Her cheeks showed one colour her gaze revealed another And the sun [...]

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Feb 5 2009

Ono no Komachi

      夢ぢには あしもやすめず かよへども うつつにひとめ 見しごとはあらず Though I go to you ceaselessly along dream paths, the sum of those trysts is less than a single glimpse granted in the waking world. Ono no Komachi Translated by Zoltan Barczikay   From Wikipedia   Ono no Komachi (小野 小町 or おののこまち) (c. 825 — c. 900) was a famous Japanese Continue reading

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