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[karadin.livejournal.com]

By counting the grains
of white sand on the seashore
I will find the sum
of the great number of years
you are destined to enjoy

anon japanese poem

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[karadin.livejournal.com]

My favorite anthology is called The Ink Dark Moon, translations of poems by my favorite Japanese poets, Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, the author is Jane Hirshfield you can find it at Amazon.com

[wongkk.livejournal.com]

Ooh - thank you! I will go and look for the moon, like one of the good Crescent company Children ;)