The Kudo's album Light inspired me to check out some Japanese poetry from the library. Here are a couple of my favorite poems from the book One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, translated by Kenneth Rexroth.
"The white chrysanthemum
Is disguised by the first frost.
If I wanted to pick one
I could find it only by chance."
-Oshikochi No Mitsune
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"Out in the marsh reeds
A bird cries out in sorrow,
As though it had recalled
Something better forgotten."
-Ki No Tsurayuki
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