MAKURA NO SOSHI: A WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS
Saturday, October 19, 2002
Ariake - Poems of Longing by Anonymous Woman Courtiers from Heian-Period Japan
Am I to go on,
Forever yearning, my thoughts
Tangled as seaweed
Swaying with the waves, neither
Drifting out nor coming in?
* * *
As night succeeds night,
I seek in vain to decide
Where my pillow should go.
How did I sleep on the night
When you appeared in my dream?
* * *
All too soon, I fear,
Wild sobs will expose my love,
As wind-driven waves,
Crashing onto the beaches,
Laying bare the roots of the pines.
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