Comments | randy_byers: Seeds in the human heart

randy_byers

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)

Comments 6

kdotdammit June 30 2010, 20:42:59 UTC

Goodness, that is sublimely beautiful.

randy_byers June 30 2010, 21:20:29 UTC

Written by a Japanese woman in the 9th century CE.

missfairchild July 1 2010, 14:08:37 UTC

Oh my ghod.

randy_byers July 1 2010, 15:03:31 UTC

Yes.

anonymous July 1 2010, 15:15:48 UTC

Thank you.

-- Denys

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.