Forbidden Planet: Japanese Death Poems

Japanese Death Poems

You can find a collection of them here here.

I rather fancied this one from Kozan Ichikyo, who died February 12, 1360, at 77 :


Empty-handed I entered the world 

Barefoot I leave it. 

My coming, my going -- 

Two simple happenings 

That got entangled.

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# posted by Richard @ 14:04

Comments:

I love poems. Some of the haiku form poems are also very poignant.

# posted by

Elvina aka LaoNiang : September 26, 2005 9:31 PM

I cannot claim to love poetry, but I do like good imagery and a nice turn of phrase.

# posted by

Richard : September 27, 2005 6:01 PM