Seeds in the human heart

[randy_byers]

My soul will go as often as I like
To my lover in a dream
Because no one will blame me there.

-- Onono Komachi, Kokinshû 657 (trans. Donald Keene)

Comments

[kdotdammit.livejournal.com]

Goodness, that is sublimely beautiful.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Written by a Japanese woman in the 9th century CE.

[missfairchild.livejournal.com]

Oh my ghod.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you.

-- Denys

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

It's a powerful dream, isn't it? It's worth looking up her other poetry too. She writes about dreams vs reality in a number of them.