Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.

Saigyō


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I'd like to divide
myself in order to see,
among these mountains,
each and every flower
of every cherry tree.

Saigyō

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Now seen...now gone,
The butterfly flits in and out
Through fence-hung flowers;
But a life lived so close to them
I envy...though it's here and gone.

Saigyō

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Limitations gone:
Since my mind fixed on the moon,
Clarity and serenity
Make something for which
There's no end in sight.

Saigyō

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Returning to where
It used to see blossoms,
My mind, changed,
Will stay on at Yoshino...
Home now, and see anew.

Saigyō

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Last year, Yoshino,
I walked away bending branches
To point me to blossoms--
Which now are everywhere and I can
Go where I've never been before.

Saigyō

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Tightly held by rocks
Through winter, the ice today
Begins to come undone:
A way-seeker also is the water,
Melting, murmuring from the moss.

Saigyō

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Today's satori:
Such a change of mind would
Not exist without
My lifelong habit of having
My mind immersed in blossoms.

Saigyō

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Beyond this life and
This world I'll have it til
My heart's content:
The bright moon that passed over
The horizon before I had my fill.

Saigyō

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Kevään kukkien
aikaan toivomme ettei
olisi yötä,
syksyllä kuutamossa,
ettei päivä koittaisi.

Saigyō

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