Pine mushrooms
live a thousand years
in one summer?
Easterbrook, WY
100 days…80th day
spirituality
100 days…79th day
Lightning flickers
only in the north:
the moon is overcast.
~Aamano Hachiro*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
100 days…78th day
Seventy-eight!
How did
a dew drop last?
100 days…77th day
I have not yet grown tired
of this world – where do
weary winds blow?
~Gofu
100 days…76th day
The path to paradise
is paved with bright
plum petals.
~Masumi Kato*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
100 days…74th day
O morning glory –
I, too, yearn for
eternity.
~Shohi*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
100 days…73rd day
If someone asks
about the mind of this monk,
say it is no more than
a passage of wind
in the vast sky.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
100 days…72nd day
In town
there are sounds
of flutes and drums.
But in this deep mountain
only a pine rustles.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
100 days…70th day
See and realize
that this world
is not permanent.
Neither late nor early flowers
will remain.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
100 days…69th day
This phantasm
of falling petals vanishes into
moon and flowers …
~Okyo*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Yoel Hoffmann
100 days…68th day
Coming, all is clear, no doubt about it.
Going, all is clear, without a doubt.
What, then, is it all?
~Hosshin*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
100 days…63rd day
In the mountain shade,
water in the moss
drips between rocks.
I feel a glimmer
of clarity.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
a meditative journey 
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