When the evening sun descends behind the mountain peak,
Will you forget that it is I who gazed with longing
Towards the place where you are?
~Sarashina Nikki (Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)
tulips
parting dreams
this spring night
the floating bridge of dreams
broke off
parting with the mountaintop
low-lying clouds in the sky ~Teika
in my next life, let me be…
How joyous and kind!
In my next life, let me be
a butterfly afield.
~Issa*
100 days…16 days
*cited:
The Spring of My Life
Trans: S Hamill
within each…grow richer
with each lightning flash,
each roll of thunder, me and
the world grow richer
~Issa*
100 days…15th day
*cited:
The Spring of My Life
Trans: S Hamill
flower gazing
in the midst of this world
we stroll along the edge of hell
gazing at flowers
~Issa
100 days…10th day
a meditative journey 
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