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Clear in the blue, the moon!

by Ryuzan
(1274 - 1358) Timeline

English version by
Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto

Original Language
Japanese
Buddhist : Zen / Chan
14th Century

Clear in the blue, the moon!
Icy water to the horizon,
Defining high, low. Startled,
The dragon uncoils about the billows.

 

 

-- from Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter, Translated by Lucien Stryk / Translated by Takashi Ikemoto

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Themes

  Moon
  Snake
  Water
 
 


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Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter, Translated by Lucien Stryk / Translated by Takashi Ikemoto

 

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