Pearls Poem by Bernadette Geyer

Pearls

Rating: 4.5


And so I look back
still thinking of her
with painful heart,
this clench of inner flesh.

—Kakinomoto Hitomaro
from Manyoshu

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Chinedu Dike 01 February 2016

A well encapsulated piece of poetry depicting heartfelt, nicely articulated and insightfully penned from inner recesses of the heart with conviction. Thanks for sharing Bernadette. Please read my poem MANDELA - THE IMMORTAL ICON

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Fabrizio Frosini 25 January 2016

Man'yōshū - or the ''Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves'' - is an ancient Anthology of poetry compiled during the Nara period (probably by Ōtomo no Yakamochi) . Kakinomoto Hitomaro is the most prominent of all the poets included in the collection.

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