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Tatsuji Miyoshi

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A Murmur on My Pillow

may my verse
be an inception

my house
can be flimsy

lost in each and every day
of my journey, incidental

verses of mine –
may they survive for just three days

they can be just a memento
of yesterday, today, and tomorrow

A MURMUR ON MY PILLOW

From: Kusasenri
Publisher: Shikisha,

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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