Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain (KotaroTakamura Poems)
(O mata fukitsunoru ame kaze.)O another deluge of wind and rain.Collar turned up, getting drenched in this splashing rain,and looking ...
KotaroTakamura Poems (14 Poems)
‘Twas a Night (KotaroTakamura Poems)
In the gas stove, a fire is burning.Oolong tea, wind, a wispy evening moon.-- That's it. -- How things stand ...
Mars Is Out (KotaroTakamura Poems)
Mars is out.After all, what should be done? The querybrings back to a beginning a way of thought it was ...
To A Person (KotaroTakamura Poems)
How I dread the thoughtOf you leaving--Like the bearing of fruit before blooming,Like the sprouting of seed before sowing,Like summer ...
To Someone (Not to Play) (KotaroTakamura Poems)
Not to play,not to waste time,you come to meet me.-- Painting no paintings, reading nobooks, doing no work --and two ...
Plum Wine (KotaroTakamura Poems)
The bottle of plum wine made and left by dead Chieko,dully stagnant with ten years' weight, holds the light,and in ...
Lemon Elegy (KotaroTakamura Poems)
You had been so waiting for a lemonIn your sad and white and bright deathbedYour perfect teeth bit with a ...
A Ragged Ostrich (KotaroTakamura Poems)
what's so funny about raising an ostrich?with only a few square yards of mud in a zoo,aren't the legs too ...
A Man Sharpening A Knife (KotaroTakamura Poems)
In silence a knife is being sharpened.Though the sun is already sinking, it is still being sharpened.The back and the ...
Another Rotating Thing (KotaroTakamura Poems)
Half wet with spring rain, the morning newspaper,a little heavy in my hands,is cutting into shreds the letters and characters ...
Winter Has Come (KotaroTakamura Poems)
Definitely winter has come.The evergreen shrub's white flowers have disappeared.The ginko trees have turned into brooms.Like a sharp sharp piercing, ...
Difficult Chieko (KotaroTakamura Poems)
Chieko sees what cannot be seen,hears what cannot be heard.Chieko goes to places one cannot go,does what cannot be done.Chieko ...
The Itinerary (KotaroTakamura Poems)
In front of me no roadbehind me a road is madeah the naturala fatheran immense father that caused me to ...
My Poetry (KotaroTakamura Poems)
My poetry is not part of western poetry;The two touch, circumference against circumference,But never quite coincide..I have a passion for ...