Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

summer night

In the summer night
The evening still seems present,
But the dawn is here.
To what region of the clouds
Has the wandering moon come home?

~ Kiyohara no Fukayabu (cited: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)

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*

100 days 57

cited:

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: