[Lika_k]

Yamabe no Akihito
The mists rise over
The still pools at Asuka*.
Memory does not
Pass away so easily.

(from "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese)

transl. by Kenneth Rexroth

Asuka gawa
Kawa yodo sarazu
Tatsu kiri no
Omoi sugu beki
Koi ni aranaku ni

*Asuka was a former Imperial Palace site

@темы: japanese, a, 8, eastern