Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-day

^{translated from the Japanese by}^{Kimiko Hahn}

[In the next room an anchor reports on border crossings]
this and that - drifts to mind - must be the sakura

[In the next room an anchor reports on increased bombing]
along this road - on which no one sets out - autumn’s foot fall

[In the next room an anchor reports on recent banned books]
Futami Bay where - a traveller severs clam from shell - I cut out into fall

さまざまの事おもひ出す櫻かな
samazama no koto omoidasu sakura kana

この道や行く人なしに秋のくれ
kono michi ya iku hito nashi ni ai no kure

蛤のふたみにわかれ行秋ぞ
hamaguri no futami ni wakare yuku aki zo

Previous Poems

Title	Author	Date
Summer Images	John Clare	07/23/2011
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]	William Shakespeare	07/23/2011
October 14—The Dow Closes Up 10015	Susan Briante	07/22/2011
Trigger Guard	Joanna Fuhrman	07/21/2011
Proclamation	Stuart Dischell	07/20/2011
The Bottom	Denise Duhamel	07/19/2011
The Pressure of the Moment	Dara Barrois/Dixon	07/18/2011
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652	John Milton	07/17/2011
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798	William Wordsworth	07/16/2011
Trip Hop	Geoffrey Brock	07/15/2011

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07/23/2011