31 December 2016

New Year's Eve :


      The bridge of dreams
Floating on the brief spring night
      Soon breaks off:
Now from the mountaintop a cloud
Takes leave into the open sky.

      Teika, aged 32, 1194

      Japanese Court Poetry 
      Robert H. Brower, Earl Roy Miner

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Out of 
now|here -- 
a bridge

      poeter      
      after Basho
      for Yves Klein
            of Leap into the Void


by Matsuo Basho (1664-1694)    
One fellow traveller 
observed --
17 lines

      for I R    
        

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