Word and Image

[karadin.livejournal.com]

O Spider Lily
that grows on the mountain
called Waiting
is there someone you also
promised to meet this autumn?

Ono no Komachi

Comments

[wongkk.livejournal.com]

I enjoy that way that this poem, at least in this translation, is a clever mixture of teasing and wistfulness; it is as though the writer is talking to the plant as a mockery of her own awareness of missing someone.

In the image, I like the way that the orange colour and Gackt's heavy coat both suggest autumn.

Thanks for putting this combination up.