Frank J. Tassone

Ono no Komachi

#Haiku Happenings #7: Brenda presents the #tanka Ono no Komachi (J Hirshfield & M Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon)!

While watching

the long rains falling on this world

my heart, too, fades

with the unseen color

of the spring flowers.

~Ono no Komachi (J Hirshfield & M Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon)

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