contemplative

autumn wind

memories

greeting me – today

autumn wind

Color of the flower

Has already faded away,

While in idle thoughts

My life passes vainly by,

As I watch the long rains fall

~Ono no Komachi*

100 days 55

*cited:

On a pitch-dark night road

I get lost

watching the moon

set behind the faraway mountain

~Ryokan*

100 days 51

*cited:

Sky above, Great Wind

Trans: K Takahashi

How joyous and kind?

In my next life, let me be

a butterfly afield

~Issa*

*cited:

The Spring of My Life

Trans: S Hamill