| The weird thought of the night. |
[Jun. 4th, 2004|12:36 am] |
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Both Tolstoy and Einstein believed in the supreme being. But Tolstoy's God was self-righteous and judgmental, while Einstein's benevolent and creative. |
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| Gaki |
[Jun. 4th, 2004|10:39 pm] |
From the "Japanese Death Poems written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death"
a haiku by Gaki (Akutagawa Ryunosuke, died on July 24, 1927 at the age of thirty six)
"laughing at myself" /Mizubana ya hana no saki dake kure nokoru/
One spot alone
left glowing in the dark:
my snotty nose
He gave the poem to his aunt on the night of July twenty third and asked her to deliver it the next morning to the family doctor, who was himself a haiku poet. The same night Akutagawa killed himself by drinking poison. |
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translations(Rus->Eng): Michael Baru ![[info]](http://lj.rossia.org/img/userinfo-lj.gif) synthesizer@lj |
[Jun. 4th, 2004|11:19 pm] |
сельский автобус
шофер просыпается
на дорожных ухабах
country bus
the driver wakes up
on potholes |
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| translations(Rus->Eng): Michael Baru synthesizer@lj |
[Jun. 4th, 2004|11:24 pm] |
утро нового года
осколки разбитых вдребезги
пузырьков от шампанского
New Year's morning
the shards of shattered
champagne bubbles |
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| translations(Rus->Eng): Michael Baru synthesizer@lj |
[Jun. 4th, 2004|11:26 pm] |
песок мелководья
течение перебирает лапки
мертвому жуку
sandbar
the current plays with the legs
of a dead beetle |
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