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)
Apr
24
2009
Tu Fu
Written on the wall at Chang’s hermitage
It is Spring in the mountains.
I come alone seeking you.
The sound of chopping wood echoes
Between the silent peaks.
The streams are still icy.
There is snow on the trail.
At sunset I reach your grove
In the stony mountain pass.
You want nothing, although at night
You [...]
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)
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
Feb
4
2009
Poem by Akahito
by Nga Bui Katz
Feb
3
2009
Akiko memories
Black hair
Tangled in a thousand strands.
Tangled my hair and
Tangled my tangled memories
Of our long nights of love making
Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)
translated by Kenneth Rexroth
From Wikipedia
Akiko Yosano (与謝野 晶子 Yosano Akiko, 7 December 1878 – 29 May 1942) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, Continue reading
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