Kokinshu #93
Wednesday, 1 June 2011 07:09![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer Topic unknown.
It isn't as if
the spring colors arrive at
this town and not that --
so how is it we can see
some flowers bloom but not others?
haru no iro no
itari itaranu
sato wa araji
sakeru sakazaru
hana no miyoramu
---L.
It isn't as if
the spring colors arrive at
this town and not that --
so how is it we can see
some flowers bloom but not others?
—22 May 2011
Original author unknown. The faux naivete is from Chinese models -- I sometimes wonder if this influence was entirely a good thing. Also, while a line consisting of a verb in positive and then negative form ("arrive and not arrive") can strike a clever note, that doesn't mean that a second such line ("bloom and not bloom") is twice as clever; at least the structures aren't fully parallel, though the shaded distinction this implies eludes me.haru no iro no
itari itaranu
sato wa araji
sakeru sakazaru
hana no miyoramu
---L.