Word and Image

[karadin.livejournal.com]

You never touch
this soft skin
surging with hot blood.
Are you not bored
expounding the Way?


-Yosano Akiko

Comments

[ishitaru.livejournal.com]

wow))))
hot

[michiyo-fir.livejournal.com]

Karadin~ Where was that picture originally from? Is it possible that I can get a bigger version of it? ^^

[karadin.livejournal.com]

well, the original pic has him lying on a yellow couch, I'm not sure of the source of the photoshoot, I can ask the person I got it from.

[wongkk.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested to see/know more about the original picture too. The man wears black and is hotter is than the flames!

The poem is curious - but a neat expression of the flesh v. the spirit. And perhaps it is also ironic - a cartoon of one person (the "flesh" advocate) not understanding that the spiritual territory is too infinite and absorbing ever to permit boredom.

Thanks for keeping the Words and Images supplied.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Or you could say, while one can be busy pondering infinity, the here and now can be pretty good too. ;D

[wongkk.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, there's certainly an opposing rationale! What's the point in wasting time speculating about the uncertainties of the unseen when there are so many physical senses to satisfy and gratify for sure?

Some people are more obviously inclined to one direction than the other, of course - whilst others (Kenshin?) spend their days travelling between both ends of the spectrum. Perhaps Gackt does both too? No idea.

I looked up some stuff about the writer of the poem. For the little I've read, she's oddly didactic for a poet - almost seems to connect with poetry as a tool for education rather than as an art form. I like the way she felt compelled to translate classical Japanese poetry into more modern Japanese; it takes guts to tackle this task (adapting great literature for a modern mind) because, usually, the original author has a much greater talent than the adapter's own. I admire her for taking that on.