life’s passages … 50

Not for stilts

but as a cane

bamboo serves me now,

I who call to mind

the games of childhood.

~Saigyo (B Watson, Poems of a Mountain Home)

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Bronlima says:

March 1, 2024 at 3:47 pm

Beautiful, the aged leaf bows his head to the rising buds of youth.

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