Posted by sigismund on December 4, 2010, at 17:25:35
In reply to ****faith trigger***, posted by obsidian on December 1, 2010, at 23:19:06
I picked up this book of poems by Miyazawa Kenji "A Future of Ice Poems and stories of a Japanese Buddhist".
Since you mention religion here is one of his.....
The Snow on Saddle Mountain
The only thing you can count on
is the snow on the string of Saddle Mountain peaks.
The fields and the woods
look either frowzy or dulled
and you can't count on them at all,
so, although it's really such a yeasty,
opaque blizzard,
the only thing that sends faint hope
is Saddle Mountain
(this is one old fashioned religion)And here is
Wind and Resentments
Ponderous in fox-fur,
you snatch from the wind such ridiculous resentments,
things that look like brass plates,
and throw them at me;
can't you see I'm hurrying
along the pine road in the snow
and the ruddy cypresses lined up in the graveyard are watching,
I don't have enough time to respond to them one by one.
Ha!
in the cold wind over the town
a black smoke flows, flows.
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