Thomas McAuley

Academic, Japanese teacher, poetry translator - all aspects of Japan, ancient and modern.

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

秋くればおもひみだるるかるかやのした葉や人の心なるらん
When the autumn comes
So confused are my thoughts—
As the tangled tufts of grass
Below are folk’s
Feelings, I wonder?
#waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #autumn #和歌 #秋 #秋歌 https://t.co/IQn4DMpnXI

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

まめなれどなにぞはよけくかるかやのみだれてあれどあしけくもなし
A serious man am I,
Yet what is for the best?
Being as reaped thatch,
Tangled in confusion
Is not that bad, at all.
#waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #和歌 https://t.co/tFtLCyQgAc

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

こころにはひとつみのりとおもへどもむしはこゑごゑきこゆなるかな
In my heart
One sacred truth
I hold, yet from
The insects song upon song
I hear!
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #Japan #和歌 https://t.co/Hp4kkfo0aL

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

もろこしのよしのの山にこもるともおくれむと思ふ我ならなくに
Even in Cathay’s
Yoshino Mountains
Should you be trapped,
Thinking to abandon you—
No, that is not I…
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[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

いせのうみのあまのつりなは打ちはへてくるしとのみや思ひ渡らむ
Upon the sea at Ise
Fisher-folk their lines
Play out
Endlessly in pain
Shall my thoughts upon you dwell?
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 https://t.co/SYyLdAHRhT

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

誰により世をうみやまに行きめぐり絶えぬ涙にうきしづむ身ぞ
For whose sake did I
The mountains and the sorry seas
Traverse
In endless tears
Sunk in grief?
Genji monogatari 253 #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #Japan #和歌 https://t.co/YKhjlicJdv

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

つくばねのしげきの木のまかげはあれど秋にはかはる夏の夜の月
On the peak of Tsukuba
Between the trees so lush
Shadows fall, yet
In autumn ‘twill be different—
The moon this summer night.
#waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #summer #和歌 #夏　#夏歌 https://t.co/9CiEvH7rKx

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

Love and Fireflies #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #fireflies #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 #夏虫 #aiart https://t.co/8CghBPl3RG

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

Love and Fireflies #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #fireflies #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 #夏虫 #aiart https://t.co/ujFr6wkALz

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

Mountain cherries #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #spring #springpoem #和歌 #春 #春歌 #aiart https://t.co/MEgB8OvKb3

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

Mountain cherries #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #spring #springpoem #和歌 #春 #春歌 #aiart https://t.co/e0FlcLt5OE

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

Mountain cherries #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #spring #springpoem #和歌 #春 #春歌 #aiart https://t.co/cXT2tKRrJI

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

Mountain cherries #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #spring #springpoem #和歌 #春 #春歌 #aiart https://t.co/LoQ76F3oee

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

おもひわびさてもいのちはあるものをうきにたへぬは涙なりけり
Burning with the pain of love,
At least life is
Something that I have, but
Unable to endure her cruelty
Are my tears.
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌　 https://t.co/FzlfQkTb9R

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

心にもあらでうき世にながらへば恋しかるべき夜はの月かな
My heart
Is not in it, but in this sorry world
Should I stay on, then
Surely will I love
Tonight’s midnight moon!
#waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #miscellaneouspoem #和歌 #雑歌 https://t.co/7x8JwGrt4Y

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

目に近く移ればかはる世の中を行くすゑとほくたのみけるかな
Within my sight
Revealed, but changing
Is this mundane world that
Into the distant future
I had placed my trust!
Genji monogatari 463 https://t.co/b6QZe0UheG

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

うらみわびまたじ今はの身なれども思ひなれにし夕暮の空
Suffering in despair,
Now wait no more
Will I, yet,
All those old, familiar feelings arrive
With the evening skies.
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 https://t.co/ej02UOv3bX

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

あきの夜はころもさむしろかさねても月のひかりに敷くものぞなき
On an autumn night
Even with a robe and chilly blanket both
Piled on,
The moon’s light
Spreading, is entirely matchless.
#waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #autumn #和歌 #秋 #秋歌 https://t.co/6pM8iqW8Qy

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

見せばやなをじまのあまの袖だにもぬれにぞぬれし色はかはらず
O, how I would show you that
On Ojima Isle, the fisherfolks’
Sleeves
Soaked though they may be
Have unchanged hues, but…
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 https://t.co/VmIP039Rij

[Thomas McAuley @wakapoet]

人もをし人もうらめしあぢきなく世を思ふゆゑにものおもふ身は
Some folk I hold dear, and
Some folk I despise,
Pointlessly
Brooding on this world
Sunk in gloomy thought.
#waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #miscellaneouspoem #和歌 #雑歌 https://t.co/yIcZAdXLsz