O morning glory –
I, too, yearn for
eternity.
~Shohi*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
nature
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…71st day
The fireflies’ light,
How easily it goes on
How easily it goes out again.
~Chine-Jo*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
Trans: K Rexroth & I Atsumi
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…67th day
Children,
let’s go to the mountain
to view violets.
If they scatter away tomorrow,
what can we do?
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
100 days…62nd day
Only today left
of spring. My walking
ended it.
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert
100 days…61st day
On a mountain slope
Solitary, uncompanioned
Stands a cherry tree.
Except for you, lonely friend,
To others I am unknown.
~Abbot Gyoson*
*cited:
100 days…60th day
Spring is going;
hesitating and indecisive,
the last cherry blossom
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert
100 days…59th day
Does that bird
think of past times
as it flies, singing
over the shade in the spring…
of weeping willows?
100 days…58th day
Within but a single night
The cherry blossoms vanish
And are completely gone
~Issa*
*cited:
100 day…57th day
In the peaceful light
Of the ever-shining sun
In the days of spring,
Why do the cherry’s new-blown blooms
Scatter like restless thoughts
~Ki no Tomonori*
cited:
a meditative journey 
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