A PASSING MOMENT
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This is my rather loose translation of a hokku by Ōemaru, who lived into
the first five years of the 19th century. For a moment,Autumn seen on the
hillsAt ...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Quintanka 5: Summer Dreaming Poem
On Seeing Again Sailboats
As if our sailing psyches
surfaced from deep subconscious seas
to breathe the dream and stay
afloat with will and wakefulness—
else sink again towards sleep to freeze.
~Son Rivers 2007
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Oh to be sailing in the summer winds! Nice poem!
Skye
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