Leaning Moon

Japanese




月やあらぬ春や昔の春ならぬ      
      わが身一つはもとの身にして



Tsuki ya aranu haru ya mukashi no haru naranu
    waga mi hitotsu wa moto no mi ni shite




The moon is not? 
The spring is not
its former self? 
Only my body is  
my former self.  



A poem at Kyoto. Full bloom of Ume.


19 Feb 2008 


Ariwara no Narihira

31 Letters

Poetry

Verse in the Universe