randy_byers: (2009-05-10)
randy_byers ([personal profile] randy_byers) wrote2010-06-30 01:34 pm
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Seeds in the human heart

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)
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[identity profile] kdotdammit.livejournal.com 2010-06-30 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Goodness, that is sublimely beautiful.

[identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com 2010-06-30 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Written by a Japanese woman in the 9th century CE.

[identity profile] missfairchild.livejournal.com 2010-07-01 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my ghod.

[identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com 2010-07-01 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

(Anonymous) 2010-07-01 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

-- Denys

[identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com 2010-07-01 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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