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lnhammer ([personal profile] lnhammer) wrote2010-12-31 08:27 am

Kokinshu #44

(Written on plum trees blooming beside the waters.)

    Year after year,
the water that becomes a
    mirror of flowers --
should we say it clouds over
as petals scatter on it?

—31 October 2010

(Original by Ise.) And now the plum flowers start fading. With, apparently, yucky line breaks. Bah.


toshi o hete
hana no kagami to
naru mizu wa
chirikakaru o ya
kumoru to iuramu


---L.