swinging on the swing
clutching
cherry blossoms
~Issa*
spring creek park
*cited:
summer swinging
japanese poetry
black and white sunday: windows
the way things are…
through my worthless window
days grow longer
~Issa*
Inspired by Lost in Translation
*cited:
in my heart…dwells
Darkness has lifted and
In the sky that is my heart
Dwells the moon–
To the western mountains’ edge
It does, perhaps, draw near.
~The Monk Saigyo*
*cited:
hot summer days
these hot summer days
continue…but how far away
those days called Long Ago
sweet peas
In the depths of night…I dream
How peaceful is
Every single dawn;
I gaze out, yet
Still in the depths of night
I dream…a grief, indeed.
~Princess Shokushi*
*cited:
black & white sunday
Of a mind to depart,
A bird his former nest
Will always find;
Accustomed to the blossoms
On this evening they are gone…
~The Monk Jakuren*
*cited:
blossoms in profusion
‘This all the same-
Blossoms in profusion
Everywhere;
And on every mountain’s edge
White clouds hang.
~The Monk En’i*
*cited:
every single trace has gone
But rarely
Did he visit-now
‘Tis all in the past, and
Since then in the garden
Every single trace has gone.
~Monk-Prince Shukaku*
iris
*cited:
drifting away…
how can I blame the cherry blossoms
for rejecting this floating world
and drifting away as the wind calls them?
~Shunzei’s Daughter*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
a hazy shadow
is it like
a charcoal sketch-
a hazy shadow?
~Toyokuni*
filament
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
black & white sunday: natural
There are pauses between the showers of the outer world,
But there is no time when my sleeves, wet with tears, are dry.
~Murasaki Shikibu*
Lost in Translation’s theme for the Black and White Sunday is… natural
*cited:
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
Trans: A Omori & K Doi
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/omori/court/court.html
deep…into spring
chasing a butterfly
deep into the spring woods,
I am lost
~Sugita Hisajo*
*cited:
Far Beyond the Field
M Ueda
a meditative journey 
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