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In the ceaselessly falling snow
In a completely conceraled
Dimly lit chicle coup
The image of living things
The disgrace of things that go on living
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From Yoshioka Minoru Still Life tr by Eric Selland 1955

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Within the hard surface of the night's bowl
Swelling with brightness
The autumn fruits
Apples, pears, grapes and so on
Poised on on top of the other
...

From Yoshioka Minoru Still Life tr by Eric Selland 1955

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The shepherd musing oer his summer dreams
The may day wild flowers in the meadow grass
The sunshine sparkling in the valley streams
The singing ploughman and hay making lass
These live the summer of thy rural themes
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John Clare about 1824

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The pass of Nakayama was dusky though it was midday. The thick folliage of thetall trees blocked the sunlight. We cut through the woods along an ancient path paved with cobblestones until we came to an open place ...

From Yoko Danno A Woman in a Blue Robe 2016
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Channeling, part of daily experience, is an underrated technique in literature.

It's natural for an artist to receive information from a non-objective source.

New spirits are expressing themselves from new quantum realms.

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2020

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I see his dark shape, moving and shifting against night's screen of stars.

My little girl reaches for his lighted silhouette.

Human beings are thought upward and flown through by bright birds.

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From A Treatise on Stars bt Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2020

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Sometimes I brought the ETs flowers, sometimes a pretty rock.

I tell her that rocks like meteorites retain light, a sensible energy thought into existence by experiencing it.

All life is the coherence of light...

From A Treatise on Stars bt Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2020

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You can rise to a level of not knowing that's untouched by entropy.

Out of uncertainty, openness: order is mantained.

You rise to a realization beyond decay.

There's a deeper intelligence than that.

From A Treatise on Stars bt Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2020

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Of on that is so fayr and bright
Velut maris stelle,
Brighter than the day is light,
Parens et puella:
Ic crie to the, thou see to me,
Levedy, prie the Sone for me,
Tam pia,
That ic mote come th three
Maria.

Annonymous c. 1300

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Wynter wakeneth al my care,
Nou this leves waxeth bare:
Ofte I sike and mourne sare
When it cometh in my thoht
Of his worlde's joie, hou hit geth al to noht.

Annonymous c. 1300

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The forest wakes from a world of long endurance
the trees stretch tap each others shoulders
Rub their hands together still a little chilled by the light wind

From Songs of the Frozen Plain by Sarashima Genzo tr by Nadine Willems 1941

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I don't really have any business there
But at night after work I go to Scum Town
Maybe I ought to keep slaving away like the old blokes in bygone days
...

From Seed Potatoes by Sarashima Genzo tr by Nadine Willems

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Socho

Early this morning
after many frosty nights
a mist veils the hills

Shohaku

Smoke is seen to rise in peace
from the temporary shack

From Minase Sangin Hyakuin Renga , Sogi, Socho, Shahaku 1488 tr by Yoko Danno

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Socho

I might be taken
for dead, living secluded,
away from friends

Shohaku

If so, I will keep living
hanging on to this frail world

From Minase Sangin Hyakuin Renga , Sogi, Socho, Shahaku 1488 tr by Yoko Danno

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Sogi

Snow still lingering,
the foot of the hills is veiled
in spring haze at dusk

Shohaku

Water flows far - the village
fragrant with the plum blossoms

From Minase Sangin Hyakuin Renga , Sogi, Socho, Shahaku 1488 tr by Yoko Danno

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the day breaks
beyond the mountains
trees vibrate

the first beat of a drum
resounds!

From Floating Words by Yoko Danno 2026

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Where am I,
standing naked in the water,
wind gently raising ripples

ruffles the willow leaves,
my long feathers,
my long hair?

Where am I,
painful in the bright sunlight,
burning green hills overwhelm me,

From Hagoromo by Yoko Danno 2004

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How sweet the wood shades the hot summer hours
And stretches oer my head its sheltering green
As I recline mid grass and cooling flowers
And seeded stalks of blossoms that have been
Sure tis a pleasure in such secret nooks
...

John Clare about 1824

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Sweet unassuming minstrel not to thee
The dazzling fashions of the day belong
Natures wild pictures field and cloud and tree
And quiet brooks far distant from the throng
In murmurs tender as the toiling bee
Make the sweet music of the gentle song

John Clare about 1824

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the world of dew
is the world of dew
and yet

tsuyu no yo wa
tsuyu no yo nagara
sari nagara

露の世は 露の世ながら さりなが

Kobayashi Issa 小林 一茶 my translation 1819

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quite remarkable
being born human
autumn dusk

nakanaka ni
hito to umarete
aki no kure

なかなかに 人と生れて 秋の暮

Kobayashi Issa 小林 一茶 tr by Daniel Lanoue 1811

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autumn begins ---
I thought this journey
would have ended

tatsu aki ya
tabi yame maku to
omou ma ni

立秋や旅 止まくと 思ふ間に

Kobayashi Issa 小林 一茶 tr by Daniel Lanoue 1804

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It's a down, down
down trodden land ,,,
but, cool!

gege mo gege
gege no gegoku no
suzushisa yo

下々も下々 下々の下国の 涼しさよ

Kobayashi Issa 小林 一茶 tr by Daniel Lanoue 1813

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blossoms become clouds ---
people become
smoke

hana wa kumo
hito wa keburi to
nari ni keri

花は雲 人は煙と なりにけり

Kobayashi Issa 小林 一茶 tr by Daniel Lanoue 1822

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letting clams
vomit mud
a moonlit night

hamaguri no
gomi wo hakasuru
tsuki yo kana

蛤の芥を吐する月夜かな

Kobayashi Issa 小林 一茶 tr by Daniel Lanoue 1810

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dancing monkey ---
he gives his rice cake
to the child

mai saru ya
mochi itadakite
ko ni kureru

舞い猿や 餅いただきて 子に暮れる

Kobayashi Issa 小林 一茶 tr by Daniel Lanoue 1821

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the first year's sky
gives a gift
snow flitting down

hatsu sora no
shugi ya yuki no
chira chira to

初空の朱戟や雪のちらちらと

Kobayashi Issa 小林 一茶 tr by Daniel Lanoue 1824

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homeless too
seeing the new year
on Edo

ie nashi mo
edo no ganjitsu
shitari keri

家なしも江戸の元日したりけり

Kobayashi Issa 小林 一茶 tr by Daniel Lanoue 1824

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The small wind whispers thro the leafless hedge
Most sharp and chill while the light snowey flakes
Rests on each twig and spike of withered sedge
Resembling scattered heathers --- vainly breaks
The pale split sunbeam thro the the frowning cloud

John Clare 1824

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Though o'er the darksome northern hill
Old ambushed winter frowning flies,
And faintly drifts his threatening still
In snowy sleet and blackening skies;
Yet where the willow leaning lies
And shields beneath the budding flower
...

From John Clare about 1824

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