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
nature
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:
100 days…56th day
As I view the moon,
Many thoughts come into my mind,
And my rememberings are sad
Yet, it is not for me alone,
That this spring has come.
100 days…55th day
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*
*cited:
a meditative journey 
You must be logged in to post a comment.