Showing posts with label Hatsui Shizue. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

A Haiku for Today


snow on delicate branches silhouetted against a blue sky
 
Silently
time passes.
The only life I have
submits to its power.

- Hatsui Shizue



from: Women Poets of Japan. Copyright 1977.