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Seeds in the human heart
Jun 30, 2010 13:34
My soul will go as often as I like
To my lover in a dream
Because no one will blame me there.
-- Onono Komachi, Kokinshû 657 (trans. Donald Keene)
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kdotdammit
June 30 2010, 20:42:59 UTC
Goodness, that is sublimely beautiful.
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randy_byers
June 30 2010, 21:20:29 UTC
Written by a Japanese woman in the 9th century CE.
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missfairchild
July 1 2010, 14:08:37 UTC
Oh my ghod.
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randy_byers
July 1 2010, 15:03:31 UTC
Yes.
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anonymous
July 1 2010, 15:15:48 UTC
Thank you.
-- Denys
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randy_byers
July 1 2010, 15:29:39 UTC
It's a powerful dream, isn't it? It's worth looking up her other poetry too. She writes about dreams vs reality in a number of them.
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