Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Existential Loneliness

image credit: olasso (Flickr)


All around, no flowers in bloom
Nor maple leaves in glare,
A solitary fisherman's hut alone
On the twilight shore
Of this autumn eve.

Fujiwara no Teika


Poem by Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) translation by Toshihiko and Toyo Izutsu Koren, Leonard. 1994. Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press.

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