While I gaze upon it
I feel a certain distance:
The moon light
Makes its way to dwellings
Everywhere, I feel.
(Ki no Tsurayuki)
More Poetry from Ki no Tsurayuki:
- I've not set hand (Ki no Tsurayuki Poems)
- My thoughts are drawn (Ki no Tsurayuki Poems)
- The colour and the fragrance (Ki no Tsurayuki Poems)
- Twisting into thread (Ki no Tsurayuki Poems)
- When the spring has come (Ki no Tsurayuki Poems)
- With a song he tried to keep (Ki no Tsurayuki Poems)