tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8878251055355401404..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Issa: Spring begins againUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23508138221333981992011-04-06T04:37:31.580-07:002011-04-06T04:37:31.580-07:00How wonderful to have seen the Spring at your plac...How wonderful to have seen the Spring at your place for the summer heat in here is already proving to be more than just trouble. Like Sandra says we still have paradise! <br />Such a reprieve! And so from the alcoves of my own memories begin to seep scenes of beauty and content. <br /><br />Growing on a tree<br /> koel kids<br />and mango blossomsadityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90217541517362699982011-04-04T02:33:52.428-07:002011-04-04T02:33:52.428-07:00Oh, Tom... Stop it!Oh, Tom... Stop it!Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-3003137728073079462011-04-03T18:48:57.855-07:002011-04-03T18:48:57.855-07:00Artur,
Plum, cherry, magnolia are blooming. Thoug...Artur,<br /><br />Plum, cherry, magnolia are blooming. Though all were battered by the hail, they are, of course, hale enough to keep on putting out buds now the monsoons have ceased. <br /><br /><br />Julia,<br /><br />You have provided so many beauties at Meliora Latent that we have some catching up to do, here.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54241756265810420072011-04-03T09:09:45.827-07:002011-04-03T09:09:45.827-07:00Of course I love this, especially the duckling or ...Of course I love this, especially the duckling or gosling and the lambs at Gordale Scar. It's something to look forward to. Do you have blossom in Berkeley now?<br /><br />Artur.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60915437189049936462011-04-03T05:06:31.929-07:002011-04-03T05:06:31.929-07:00Wonderful images and words, Tom.
¿Cómo consigues ...Wonderful images and words, Tom. <br />¿Cómo consigues tanta belleza?<br />Our spring and, alas, summer are going away here, but it's nice to see them coming in our friend's blogs. And to know they can enjoy them.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45926444741939407222011-04-02T23:32:59.437-07:002011-04-02T23:32:59.437-07:00a single line compound-complex poem/thought
Ed, c...a single line compound-complex poem/thought<br /><br />Ed, compared with that, the Holy Grail was a melted ice cream cone.<br /><br />A very large purring cat on my lap, cutting off the blood flow to the necrosis, happily prevents me from speaking at length re. my observation so far that 70 is the new 90.<br /><br />In a do-or-die gambit, on the first day it stopped raining (2 days ago) I resolved to get off my back and, four months after losing the battle to the tire-piercing spikes, once again brave the streets of life. Hobbling ruefully back later, I glanced up, saw the moon, and thought of -- no, not Issa -- but Ed Baker.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60513477360844232212011-04-02T20:06:43.473-07:002011-04-02T20:06:43.473-07:00that "turn" is into that 7th decade is i...that "turn" is into that 7th decade is in two weeks for me<br /> seems like just yesterday I was 18<br /><br />for me Issa is "a cut above" the others <br /><br />between him and Ikkyu well where can I get a warm cup of Santoka's (family's) sake?<br /><br />ever read Issa's Chichi no Shuen Nikki ?<br /><br />the entire thing is in Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 39,<br /> No.! (Spring, 1984, pp. 25-54<br /> Robert Huey did this for us.<br /><br />If Father were here,<br />We'd be looking out at dawn<br />Across these wide green hills.<br /><br /><br />or<br /><br />Chichi arite<br />Akebono mitashi<br />Aotahara<br /><br /><br />however I suspect that the original was a single line compound-complex poem/thought<br /><br />for some reason I distrust translations as<br />it s hard enough (for me) writing in my own language<br /><br /><br />& here is first run at my 70 th birthday poem:<br /><br />full moon<br />here 70 years<br />big fucking dealEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67255382799282930252011-04-02T18:45:18.565-07:002011-04-02T18:45:18.565-07:00Sandra, absolutely.
Ed, I hear you. So-so spring ...Sandra, absolutely.<br /><br />Ed, I hear you. So-so spring here too.<br /><br />(I think those first few haikus were written in the year after Issa turned sixty... Ay, little did he know the ultra-averagenesses Time would have held in store for him had he turned the crooked corner into that next decade...)<br /><br />Curtis, yes, to provide "another reminder of Japan" was no small part of the purpose here... what can one do?<br /><br />Steve, yes, these poems remind me we are here, now, and<br /><br />everywhere, is later<br /><br /><br />Don, we've been appreciating your posting of Scott Watson's Japan diaries. <br /><br />That is one thing one can do... and thank you for it.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43603565113478693912011-04-02T11:40:22.569-07:002011-04-02T11:40:22.569-07:00that one little duckette poking through
beautiful
...that one little duckette poking through<br />beautiful<br />I'll never eat Peking Duck ....again !<br /><br />things here also<br />about "average"<br />not exactly the haiku moments that you today gift us.<br /><br />thanxEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9483697064292989662011-04-02T11:26:19.091-07:002011-04-02T11:26:19.091-07:00Beautiful, Tom, and this just illustrates the mast...Beautiful, Tom, and this just illustrates the mastery of Blyth. <br /><br />Fantastic translations.<br /><br />Sorry to be away for so long. I've been posting everyday, putting up Scott Watson's Sendai Quake Journal in installments. Trying to give a personal face to the ongoing Japan disaster. <br /><br />Hope to have time to visit more regularly ... soon.<br /><br />best,<br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13551162700851131422011-04-02T07:22:29.363-07:002011-04-02T07:22:29.363-07:00Tom,
Very nice, "especially prized" as ...Tom,<br /><br />Very nice, "especially prized" as EP once upon a time said -- "A time of congratulations , -- / But my spring/ Is about average"; "A spring day closes,/ Lingering/ Where there is water" (more water on the way here, perhaps) . . . .<br /><br /><br />4.2<br /><br />first light coming into sky above still<br />shadowed ridge, leaves moving on branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> i.e., as well as “thinking”<br /> of before as not yet<br /><br /> appearing, filling in light<br /> everywhere, is later<br /><br />lines of white clouds in pale blue sky,<br />shadowed green pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-3342447732800174602011-04-02T06:55:48.758-07:002011-04-02T06:55:48.758-07:00It's hard to know where to start, except to sa...It's hard to know where to start, except to say that you never want this to end. That being said, I guess I'll rest my mind on "The still remaining, uneaten ducks<br />.....Are quacking."<br /><br />Today we're leaving the warm perfect southern California weather and heading back to what sounds like a miserable (in terms of weather) beginning of spring. Jane's school has a remarkable assembly of large flowering cherry trees. I hope we'll get to see them blossom this year, but obviously it's just another reminder of Japan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23217794320506379022011-04-02T06:08:31.423-07:002011-04-02T06:08:31.423-07:00we still have paradise!we still have paradise!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com