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Camel

by Shinkichi Takahashi
(20th Century) Timeline

English version by
Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto

Original Language
Japanese
Buddhist : Zen / Chan
20th Century

The camel's humps
shifted with clouds.

Such solitude beheads!
My arms stretch

beyond mountain peaks,
flame in the desert.

 

 

-- from Triumph of the Sparrow: Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi, Translated by Lucien Stryk / Translated by Takashi Ikemoto

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Themes

  Fire
  Mountain
 
 
 


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Afterimages: Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi, by Shinkichi Takahashi
Triumph of the Sparrow: Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi, Translated by Lucien Stryk / Translated by Takashi Ikemoto
Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter, Translated by Lucien Stryk / Translated by Takashi Ikemoto

 

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