No, there is no longer a rant space here.
instead, I will fill your head with Japanese Poetry!
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
I'll brainwash you into glorious tanka-reciting machines!!!
HAHAHAHA!!!!
I mean, enjoy the poems. (I'll now keep old poems on this
page from now on, as well as the original Japanese when I can.)
A Sijo for 1-2-04
In dreams I yearn to come to you in a cricket's spirit.
In this endless autumn night I'll spring into your darkened room
wake you from your singular sleep, and murmer of my longing.
-Pak Hyokwan
Poem(s) for 2-21-2003
Bamboo growing
Among the tangled reeds
Like my hidden love:
But it is still to much to bear
That I love her so.
Asajiu no
Ono no shinohara
Shinoburedo
Amarite nado ka
Hito no koishiki
-Minamoto no Hitoshi
Poem for 11-25-2002 same one on my front page
Making no sound
Yet smouldering with passion
The firefly is still sadder
Than the moaning insect
-Minamoto Shigeyuki
Poem for 11-9-2002
Like a driven wave,
Dashed by fierce winds on a rock,
So am I: Alone.
And crushed upon the shore
Remebering what has been
Kaze o itami
Iwa utsu nami no
Onore nomi
Kudakete mono o
Omou koro kana
-Minamoto Shigeyuki
Poem for 10-16-2002
Gossip grows like weeds
In a summer meadow
My girl and I
Sleep arm in arm.
-- Hitomaro |