Post linking to discussions of "lost" rivers of the world.  Figured this audience might be interested.

I was away at a Thing last week/end and I spent some time flailing around trying to describe and recommend the Rivers series and the Matthew Swift series.  Rivers was easy (just steal the cover line "Harry Potter Becomes A Copper"), but Matthew ( Read more... )

This year's Nobel laureate for literature looks intriguing. I'll have to go look up some of his poetry. A collection, The Great Enigma, can be viewed (for a limited # of pages, as I just found out) through Google Books.

BLACK POSTCARDS ( Read more... )

1. 【著者】加賀千代女

朝顔に
つるべとられて
もらい水

borrowing water --
my well-bucket is captured
by morning glories.

2. 【著者】無名

テスト前
なぜか掃除が
したくなる

just before my tests
why is it that suddenly
I feel like cleaning?

I translated; please leave corrections in comments.

This one always does a number on me.

Spring and Fall, to a Young Child

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)Margaret, are you grieving ( Read more... )

So April is national poetry month or something? Everyone's posting poems. Well lucky for you guys I only know like ten poems total in three languages!

( 登鹳雀楼 )