Ahmad Shiddiqi Poems

Azure skies
Extensive land
Nature’s paradise
Mountains, highlands
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Since 1627
Historic Edo
Shinto worship
Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine
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riverside
small roads
vegetables
going home
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(dedicated to Mr. Renaud Capuçon, a talented violinist)

narrow
cobbled
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(dedicated to Ms. Maria João Pires, a great pianist)

threatening octave
aggressive
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(dedicated to Mr. Jan Vogler, a gifted cellist)

grief
mourning
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(dedicated to Ms. Alina Cojocaru, a great Romanian ballerina)

flowing
precise
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using canting
the cloth coloring
a craft for centuries
an ancient tradition
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(dedicated to Ms. Liza Ferschtman, a gifted violinist)

mist upon silent hill
loneliness surrounds
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(dedicated to Mr. Seiji Ozawa, a great Japanese conductor)

fish
birds
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