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| Ha wa ochiru, Ha wa kaze ga fuku, Aki wa kita. |
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| Translation Notes: ha = leaf fuku = blow ochiru = fall aki = autumn kaze = wind kita = came /no/, /wa/, and /ga/ are sentence particles |
| The leaf it falls, The wind blows the leaf, Autumn has come. |
| The Meter: 1 2 3 4 5 Ha wa o-chi-ru 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ha wa ka-ze ga fu-ku 1 2 3 4 5 A-ki wa ki-ta |
| October 25, 2001 |
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| Chris Hennessy |
| Music playing: Otiba no odori (Dance of Falling Leaves) |
| Aki no ha |
| The Leaf of Autumn |
| The Inspiration: A friend and I were sitting outside talking and I happened to be staring at a particular leaf on a tree that fell off. Well, probably I was just looking in its general direction. Either way, I focused on and witnessed this particular leaf fall, then get caught up in an updraft. I probably witnessed this leaf, with a few of its leaf friends, travel a few hundred yards until it was out of sight without ever touching the ground. I did not really think, "Wow, it is Autumn!" after witnessing this, but it seemed a fitting end for the poem. ^_^ -Chris |