Tangled Hair/Gleanings
Gleanings
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The volcano of Asama!
Multitudinous white naked children
Ascend to heaven
Amidst the smoke.
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The volcano of Asama!
The stillness of the violent thing!
The whirl of the platinum flame
Moves not even slightly.
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The flames of Asama
Neither approach nor recede.
The path of the determined soul
Is single and straight.
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On a day when the pond of Kumoba
Is shrouded in the rain,
The white birch trees
Seem as pure as nuns.
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How chilly the frozen lake
Of Haruna looks!
Yet it is not
The floor of a monastery.
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The autumn wind is the autumn wind;
The moon is the moon;
But the sound of the waves
At the Naruto Straits
Is more than the sound of waves.
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Like white satin
Dipped in a dye of blue,
So disappear the whitecaps
Of the Naruto Straits.
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The moon shines white upon the sea,
And the hills of Awaji squat low
Along the Naruto Straits at midnight.
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The silver threads of the moon
And the blue threads of the waves
Are entwined in embroidery
From the cape of Oge to the island of Awaji.
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Shall I call it a light
Or a half light—
The autumnal glow
Across the ocean expanse?
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Pathetic is the lone light
That in the rise and fall
Of the ocean waves
Now appears and now disappears.