Having Drifted Apart Poem by Saigyo

Having Drifted Apart

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Having drifted apart,
Why should folk
Despise each other? For
Not known and unknowing
Times there were once before…

Saigyo
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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Fabrizio Frosini 02 June 2016

here is made clear how much the personal warmth and engagement of Saigyo's poetry differs from the detachment of typical Chinese and Japanese Buddhist poetry

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