Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich
mairfidh a fraoch go Lá an Luain - bandia cloíte	her fury will last until the end of days - deposed goddess
その激怒 終いの日まで 地界の女神 Leagan Seapáinise: Mariko Sumikura (Kyoto)	her tirrivee'll lest til the hinmaist days - deponed goddess Leagan Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald

Seitei (Shotei) Watanabe 渡辺省亭

	gan gíocs ná míocs - lúbann an bambú don cheolaire caschoille
	without creaking - the bamboo bends for a bush warbler
	軋ませず ムシクイのため 笹たわむ Leagan Seapáinise: Mariko Sumikura (Kyoto)
	wi'oot craikin - the bamboo boos fir a buss warbler Leagan Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald

iompraíonn sé ina chíor rúin na deargmhaidine - coileach

in his comb he carries secrets of the red dawn - rooster

鶏冠にて 朝焼けの秘を― 雄鶏よ Leagan Seapáinise: Mariko Sumikura (Kyoto)

in's kaim he cairries the daw's reid saicrets - cockieleerie Leagan Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald

	duilleoga mailpe ag iompú dearg is donn - éin ghlasa ar cuairt!
	maple leaves turn red and brown - green birds come to visit!
	紅葉から 枯れ色になり 鳩の来る Leagan Seapáinise: Mariko Sumikura (Kyoto)
	maple leaves turnin reid'n broon - emerant burds cry in Leagan Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald

Friend, this is the only way

Friend, this is the only way

Sachal Sarmast (1739 - 1829)
Leagan Béarla: Ivan M. Granger

Friend, this is the only way
to learn the secret way:

          Ignore the paths of others,
          even the saints' steep trails.

                    Don't follow.
                    Don't journey at all.

Rip the veil from your face.

 -- from The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger

A Chara

A chara, níl ach slí amháin
chun an chonair rúnda a aimsiú:

               Ná bac le conair éinne eile,
                cosán géar na naomh fiú.

                           Ná lean éinne.
                           Ar aistear ná téigh.

Stróic an chaille de d’aghaidh.

Haiku le Issa ón mbliain 1813

mé féin amháin
agus gas bambú ---
fionnuaire an tráthnóna

.臑一本竹一本ぞ夕涼み

sune ippon take ippon zo yûsuzumi

Ar fáil anois/Now available: Duet of Waterfalls

Ó Amazon na Seapáine

Kazuyuki Ohtsu

Kazuyuki Ohtsu
	fómhar . . . uaigneas ó bhlianta eile tríd an aer
	autumn . . . loneliness from other years spikes the air
	行く秋や 孤独幾年 宙に鋲 Leagan Seapáinise: Mariko Sumikura (Kyoto)
	hairst... the err spikit wi laneliness frae langsyne Leagan Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald

Sochraid

Sochraid

leagadh crann
sa stoirm

tháinig criú chun é a thabhairt leo
ní fhéadfainn féachaint
ar chastacht lom
a chuid fréamhacha

theastaigh uaim trí choiscéim na trócaire
a shiúl, mo cheann cromtha,
ach bhíodar bailithe leo

cad a tharlóidh anois
ní bheidh scrúdú iarbháis ann

tráthnóna éigin
i gcomharsanacht eile
gal a chréamtha ina dlaoithe

Gabriel Rosenstock

Funeral

a tree was felled
by the storm

some men came to take it away
I could not bear
to look at the naked intricacy
of its roots

and wanted to follow the funeral
head down
but they had faded away

what will happen now
there will be no autopsy

some evening
in another neighbourhood
wisps of cremation smoke

FOONERAL

a tree wis foondert
i the blowster

chiels cam an cairried it aff
a cudnae thole
tae leuk it the nakit wimple
o'ts ruits

an wintit tae follae the fooneral
heid doon
bit they'd  dwinit awa

whit'll cum o't nou
thayr'll be nae autopsy

on an eenin
in anither neibourheid
wusps o cremation reek

Leagan Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald

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Leagan Gréigise: Sarah Thilykou