At my home in Georgia, April is making her appearance in cherry blossoms and pink and white dogwoods. I know not every spot in the world is so lovely this morning.
Here are two haiku by seventeenth-century Japanese poets, from WOMEN POETS OF JAPAN, translated and edited by Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi, ©1977, publshed by New Directions, 1982:
The fireflies' light.
How easily it goes on
How easily it goes out again
Chine-Jo, late 17th Century
and, with best wishes to my friends up North welcoming April with a nor'easter:
On the road through the clouds
Is there a short cut
To the summer moon?
Den Sute-Jo, 1633-1698
Wishing a Happy Poetry Month to all, whatever the weather, and continued thoughts and prayers for Japan.
Amy has the POETRY FRIDAY ROUNDUP at The Poem Farm.
Here are two haiku by seventeenth-century Japanese poets, from WOMEN POETS OF JAPAN, translated and edited by Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi, ©1977, publshed by New Directions, 1982:
The fireflies' light.
How easily it goes on
How easily it goes out again
Chine-Jo, late 17th Century
and, with best wishes to my friends up North welcoming April with a nor'easter:
On the road through the clouds
Is there a short cut
To the summer moon?
Den Sute-Jo, 1633-1698
Wishing a Happy Poetry Month to all, whatever the weather, and continued thoughts and prayers for Japan.
Amy has the POETRY FRIDAY ROUNDUP at The Poem Farm.