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Here's one to celebrate Valentine's Day!!  I'm going to include the Japanese version of this as well to add to the romance of it.  Don't kill me just yet for being too lame and cheesy!


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Before I share this, if you noticed that my title says 'bi-weekly' this time, it's because I'm having trouble finding enough time to post a new one every week- not to mention I've never actually had a reply on any of these.  I imagine, therefore, that no one will care.

This weeks poem is about the beauty of cherry blossoms.  I absolutly adore ( Read more... )

...This is another one of my favorites...

Loving so deeply, my body
has wasted to a mere shadow;
yet even this insubstantial
likeness cannot cling to him.

The Kokinshu is a compilation of well over a thousand short poems composed by Japanese poets in the Heian period (as ordered by Emperer Uda). It dates all the way back roughly to the year 905. I ( Read more... )

Each time the idle year
comes to another end
the snow falls ever more deeply
while the number of
my days piles still higher
~ Ariwara no Motokata
The Kokinshu is a compilation of well over a thousand short poems composed by Japanese poets in the Heian period (as ordered by Emperer Uda). It dates all the way back roughly to the year 905. I have ( Read more... )

This is the poem I currently relate to the most. It pretty much sums up my state of mind for the past 5 years. I'll have to post something more positive next week so everyone doesn't fall under the impression that the Kokinshu is nothing but doom and gloom. =/

Though I am resigned to my sad fate ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't posted one of these in a few weeks... you know... new baby and all... Not like anyone ever reads these things anyway ^_^

I really like and relate to this one! In fact it seems to be a perfect depiction of how I felt during an 11 year obsession with someone. I really should share that story someday... but not today. ;)

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