激(げき)
木の葉いろ いろいろ色と 沸き立ちて
激しからずや 日々いとなみて
⸻
Intense
Leaf on leaf,
hue upon hue—
a rising riot,
a restless bloom.
And is it not fierce,
this daily becoming—
this living,
this burning
without a flame?
#激#Intense#短歌#Poetry
然|Thus
うたがえど さからえどなほ みえざらん
まことのみちの 天地無窮ぞ
I question, I resist,
yet still I cannot see
the path of truth—
heaven and earth
go on without end.
#短歌#tanka#ModernTanka
ポツリ
ひとりゐて ただポツリ しずくのような
私たちなの しみてゆくから
A Drop
Alone, I linger,
one drop, softly falling—
like rain, like us,
each in our solitude,
seeping into the earth.
#短歌#ModernTanka#Poetry
やうやう
虫のなく ひえし夜風の 放つ気の
やうやうなりし ながき秋の日
Ever So Slowly
Autumn insects sing;
cold winds stir the night.
A breath of silence,
a lingering light—
autumn, ever so slowly.
#短歌#ModernTanka#Poetry
やまと歌
湧き出でて
たゆたぬ言葉
音の風
おきつなみたつ
言の葉の海
Yamato Song
words well forth,
borne on a silver wind of sound;
far swells unfurl,
syllable upon syllable—
into the luminous sea.
#短歌#ModernTanka#SeaOfWords