Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Is This Haiku? Sky Stories

I wanted to see if others were writing poetry about the sky - here is something I found from Pleiones universe [now Pleiades]:

I should not have waited. It would have been better To have slept and dreamed, Than to have watched night pass, And this slow moon sink.
- Lady Akazome Emon
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Though the purity Of the moonlight has silenced Both nightingale and Cricket, the cuckoo alone Sings all the white night.
- Anonymous
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The purity of the moonlight, Falling out of the immense sky, Is so great that it freezes The water touched by its rays.
- Anonymous
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I go out of the darkness Onto a road of darkness Lit only by the far off Moon on the edge of the mountains.
- Izumi
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Someone passes, And while I wonder If it is he, The midnight moon Is covered with clouds.
- Lady Murasaki Shikibu
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This is not the moon, Nor is this the spring, Of other springs, And I alone Am still the same.
- Ariwara No Narihira
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Involuntary, I may live on In the passing world, Never forgetting This midnight moon.
- The Emperor Sanjó
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Since I left her, Frigid as the setting moon, There is nothing I loathe As much as the light Of dawn on the clouds.
- Mibu No Tadamine
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When I see the first New moon, faint in the twilight, I think of the moth eyebrows Of a girl I saw only once.
- Yakamochi
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A wild sea- In the distance, Over Sado, The Milky Way.
- Bashó
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The cicada sings In the rotten willow. Antares, the fire star, Rolls in the west.
- Anonymous

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