Won’t you sing?
I will get up and dance.
How can I sleep
with the timeless
moon this evening?
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K. Tanahashi
Author: brenda
weekly photo challenge: reward
Take care now;
I am going for
takuhatsu.
You stay in this
borrowed hut.
~Ryokan*
Join Krista’s Reward photo challenge!
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K. Tanahashi
men gather in harmony…
There is a peaceful little community
in a place of burned up hopes,
beside the track of dreams
that drifted away,
on the edge of a village
where crowds pass by.
There, men gather in harmony
to graze like sheep and fawns.
On all the beautiful flowers
a sun comes and goes
through the clouds in freedom.
~Mitsui Futabako*
*cited:
The Burning Heart
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
watched you without a sound
The leaves of the bush clover rustle in the wind
I, not a leaf,
watched you without a sound.
You may have thought I paid no attention.
~Kenrei Mon-in Ukyo No Daibu*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
on the road…
on the road through the clouds
is there a short cut
to the summer moon?
~Den Sute-Jo*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
K. Rexroth & I. Atsumi
weekly photo challenge: depth
A journey of no return:
the wanderer’s sack is
bottomless.
~Kyoshu*
Join Ben’s photo challenge: Depth
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Yoel Hoffmann
Karma of past lives
I was sure I would never get lost
in the tangled roads of love,
Now I have been caught
in the karma of past lives.
~Kenrei Mon-in Ukyo No Daibu*
*cited:
The Burning Heart
Trans & Ed, K Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi
in this deep mountain…
In town
there are sounds
of flutes and drums.
But in this deep mountain
only a pine rustles.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Kazuaki Tanahashi
slumbering spring…
as if mending
socks, I repair my mind
and live on
~ Yoshino Yoshiko*
*cited:
Far Beyond the Field
Makoto Ueda
weekly photo challenge: express yourself
Were there someone
in the world
who feels as I feel,
we would talk all night
in this grass hut.
~Ryokan*
visit The Daily Post to participate in Krista’s photo challenge: express yourself
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Kazuaki Tanahashi
the enemy in the world today…
It’s Not The Same
The demonstrators who…filled the streets…
the suicide core of the…who attacked…
And the students who charged against the riot staves of police…
They weren’t the same people.
…
what happened to all those people after that?
Nothing is ever quite the same
each time is different from every other
the heart of each person is disconnected.
But if there is one thing
that is the same,
it is that neither the newspapers nor television
ever reported on those young men after that.
And
the enemy in the world today
is not the United States,
is not the Soviet Union
but, bridged between you and me
unidentifiable
words of silence.
~Fukunaka Tomoko*
*cited:
The Burning Heart
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
at times I hear…
One thousand peaks merge with frozen clouds;
ten thousand paths have no human trace.
Day by day just facing the wall,
at times I hear snow drift over the window.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Kazuaki Tanahashi
a meditative journey 
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