Ono no Komachi Poems

In this world
the living grow fewer,
the dead increase
how much longer
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The autumn wind (In his ennui he blew cold)
Across the rice ears, (On our love)
So sad;
Empty of grain (My heart desolate)
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How hollow
Are tears upon a sleeve
In gemlets;
For mine cannot be dammed
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'It's over!'
Upon me drizzle
Falls and with my years
Even your words, too,
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How sad,
to think I will end
as only
a pale green mist
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Upon my breast
Floats a boat of heartbreak
And I have just embarked;
There's not a single day when waves
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Feeling:
This thing-most of all-is
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As I dozed
The man I love
Appeared, so
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No exchange of glances-a barren beach-
How I hate myself for it!
Doesn't he realise it,
Heedless of distance, the fisherman,
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Placing burning coals
To burn my body hurts less than
The sorrow of
The capital and island shore
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