[Lika_k]

Ki no Tsurayuki
Out in the marsh reeds
A bird cries out in sorrow,
As though it had recalled
Something better forgotten.

(from "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese)

transl. by Kenneth Rexroth

Wasurete mo
Aru beki mono wo
Ash hara ni
Omoi izuru no
Naku zo kanashiki

@темы: 10, japanese, k, eastern, 9