Clouds now and again
give a soul some respite from
moon-gazing - behold
-Basho
Moon over New Years - 2021
This I know-
that at the far end of a vaguely illuminated wilderness
stretching outside my consciousness
there is a skull
of beautiful silver grey
and that from the eternally dark sockets of its eye
a quiet flame is rising
- Ichiro Ando
This has once happened in those days
When I was full of happiness
This has once happened in those days
- Daigaku Horiguchi
I sleep...I wake...
How wide
The bed with none beside
- Chiyo
I am looking at a seagull;
I am looking at this lonesome flower among the waves
like a flash of lightening,
like a smile;
I am looking at the lonely, lonely flying
like time,
like eternity.
- Kiyoshi Fukuhara
My arms hang down somewhat like a relief,
And the color of my pupils is changed--in the excitement
of meeting another loneliness.
All I know is just a few simple words;
Yet I keep myself standing barely lighting at my feet with
those few luminous words I know.
- Anzai
From where?--To where?
A path runs piercing the darkness of sorrow...
- Anzai
Will you turn toward me?
I am lonely too,
this autumn evening
-Basho
While I turned my head
That traveler
I'd just passed...
Melted into mist
- Shiki
See...The heavy leaf
On the silent
Windless day...
Falls of its own will
- Boncho
A saddening world;
Flowers whose sweet
Blooms must fall...
As we too, alas...
- Issa
Roaring winter storm
Rushing to its
Utter end...
Ever-sounding sea
-Consui
With no flowers
You are free as a willow
- Chiyo
Passing through the world
Indeed this is just
A shelter from the shower
- Sogi
None broke the silence...
Nor visitor
Nor host...Nor
White chrysanthemum
- Ryota
The butterfly-
What are the dreams that make him
Flutter his wings?
- Chiyo
Summer grasses
Where stalwart soldiers
Once dreamed dreams
- Basho
Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand
And marvel...
Sleeping our noons away
-Teitoku
