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
salsify
a drop of dew
my old body
a drop of dew grown
heavy at the leaf tip
~Kiba*
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*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
sunset…
on the road through the clouds
is there a short cut
to the summer moon?
~Den Sute-Jo*
*cited:
The Burning Heart
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
a hazy shadow
is it like
a charcoal sketch-
a hazy shadow?
~Toyokuni*
filament
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
blur into dusk
shadows from a lingering sun
blur into dusk-
falling cherry petals
~Soko*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
a meditative journey 
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