Ishikawa Nobuo  English translation by Hideo Yokokawa
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Deep red maple lesves are not dead yet,
they are desperate flames
watching the end of life.
 

I wonder if it is a skein of white birds
coming from and flying away to
the far-off horizon, blooming sakura.
 

My thoght travels the void
carrying those who are rather apt to
fall in wickedness than the good.
 

Should I hear of the possible way
80 million could live through in this land,
I would feel relieved.
 

Considering those who believed in Japan,
it is not enough to apologize
by smashing my forehead.


 

 

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