I long for him most (Ono no Komachi Poems)
I long for him mostduring these long moonless nights.I lie awake, hot,the growing fires of passionbursting in my heart.Another translation ...
I long for him mostduring these long moonless nights.I lie awake, hot,the growing fires of passionbursting in my heart.Another translation ...
Upon the path of dreamsMy feet don't rest,Constantly trailing to you, yetIn reality, a single glimpse:Not even that have I ...
No exchange of glances-a barren beach-How I hate myself for it!Doesn't he realise it,Heedless of distance, the fisherman,Coming and going ...
The autumn wind (In his ennui he blew cold)Across the rice ears, (On our love)So sad;Empty of grain (My heart ...
The colour of this flowerHas already faded away,While in idle thoughtsMy life goes by,As I watch the long rains fall. ...
Upon my breastFloats a boat of heartbreakAnd I have just embarked;There's not a single day when wavesDo not soak my ...
The fisherfolk liveWithin the bay, rowing boats;Without oarsThey are all at sea-how cruel the worldWhere I am sunk in sadness. ...
In realityYou must do it, I suppose;But even in my dreams, too,Hiding from prying eyes,To see you do that pains ...
Without endDo I think of you and soCome to me at night.For on the path of dreams at least,There's no ...
Was I lost in thoughts of loveWhen I closed my eyes? HeAppeared, andHad I known it for a dreamI would ...
Fisher folk liveIn villages; whereI know not, yetConstant complaints to see the shoreAre all he seems to say. (Ono no ...
In my desolationI am as duckweed:Cut my roots andTake me away-would the water do it,I should go, I think. (Ono ...
In this worldthe living grow fewer,the dead increasehow much longermust I carry this body of grief? (Ono no Komachi)
Placing burning coalsTo burn my body hurts less thanThe sorrow ofThe capital and island shoreParting. (Ono no Komachi)
When my desiregrows too fierceI wear my bedclothesinside out,dark as the night's rough husk. (Ono no Komachi)
'It's over!'Upon me drizzleFalls and with my yearsEven your words, too,Have turned sere. (Ono no Komachi)
How hollowAre tears upon a sleeveIn gemlets;For mine cannot be dammedAs a surging flood! (Ono no Komachi)
Atop this cragI am to spend a traveller's night;So cold!Your robes of moss,Won't you lend me? (Ono no Komachi)
Feeling:This thing-most of all-isThe world of men'sUnbreakableBond. (Ono no Komachi)
As I dozedThe man I loveAppeared, soIt is dreams thatHave begun to comfort me (Ono no Komachi)
Blossoms bloomingYet making no seed areThe sea-god'sGarlandedWhitecaps offshore. (Ono no Komachi)
How sad,to think I will endas onlya pale green mistdrifting the far fields. (Ono no Komachi)
Visible colours (Invisible passions)Fade fromThis world'sHuman heartsAnd flowers. (Ono no Komachi)
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