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Age, Memory, Love, and Death |
| Section: THE ARTS / POETRY |
| Author: Translated by Graeme Wilson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,082 Words, 6,284 Characters |
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Stranger
When I walk past my looking-glass
It looks to me as though
Someone down in its shining depths
Were shuffling to and fro.
Who can that quaint old codger be?
Someone I should know?
Kakinomoto no Homomaro (c. 681-729)
Winter Waiting
Is he here, is he back? I asked them:
No-one seemed to know.
I ran outside to look for him
As fast as I could go,
Into an empty courtyard
And the sibilance of snow.
Anonymous (eighth century)
Sword
I dreamt, and in my dream
Quite clearly I could see
Laid at my side a long straight sword.
What could its meaning be?
Could such a dream perhaps foretell
You'll be visiting me?
Lady Kasa (? - 733)
Red Star Lil...
. . .
...hose thin
Forgettable whites whose seed-spawned heroin,
True memory-death, would make my death complete.
Takami Jun (1907 - 1965)
Cremation
The pyre was built of native pine.
Stars glittered overhead
As I watched the long, long burning
Of my mother's pine-log bed.
Red she was, and mulberry
And red and red and red.
Saito Mokichi (1882 - 1953)
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