Poem

Tatsuji Miyoshi

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Earth

an ant goes
dragging a butterfly wing
ah
like a yacht!

© Translation: 2010, Takako Lento

EARTH

From: Nansoushu
Publisher: Shiinokisha,

Tatsuji Miyoshi

Tatsuji Miyoshi

(Japan, 1900 - 1964)

To many Japanese baby-boomers who were born within a decade or so after the end of World War II, Tatsuji Miyoshi was the national poet, and his works appeared in their textbooks almost every school year. Those poems were perfect for classroom teaching: short and handsome, simple yet profound . . . ‘Earth’ is a good example of this – it can be read almost as a free-form haiku, but at the same ti...

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Earth

an ant goes
dragging a butterfly wing
ah
like a yacht!

© 2010, Takako Lento
From: Nansoushu

Earth

an ant goes
dragging a butterfly wing
ah
like a yacht!

© 2010, Takako Lento

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