A spring bird

A spring bird

pays a call

at the yellow jasmine;

snowflakes have ceased

swans at wintersend

fat webfeet crunching

through March snow …

eyes tighten as a gale

whips in the thistles

Stone (not ice) for reference

Here’s a picture of a rock I often visit, which featured in the Foreword to Seasons of the Gods.

To a mountain god’s stone …

Our thanks for this harvest

Of poems

And fungi and nuts.

山の神なる岩へ…

我々の感謝を捧ぐ

詩と茸と木の実なる

贈り物に

(Ryûsôiwa, Mt. Ogura, Kyoto, 11.11.07)

Leap Day

sound of the rapids

at Tiger Leaping Rock:

a roar for

its withering pines

(Kochôiwa, Mt. Ogura, Kyoto, 29.2.08)

Dedication

Thinking of millennia

Of unknown poets …

Hail comes

Tinkling down.

(Tito)

 

幾千年の　無名詩人に…　りんりんと降り来る　玉霰

ティート－