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Haibun Monday is tomorrow night over on dverse. Come read some wonderful haibun there. It is one of the very oldest and most popular forms in Japanese literature. Priests, poets, travelers used the haibun form to document their observations, and sometimes these above were spies.
Lady Nyo
- I stay here waiting for him in the autumn wind, my sash untied,
Wondering, is he coming now? Is he coming now? - And the moon is low in the sky, the only company
I have tonight. - Now near dawn, paling Milky Way appears–
- .
- And Oh, my husband! There are not stars enough in the heavens
To equal my sorrowful tears.
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Once I believed
No love could still linger
Within the heart
Yet, something springs from the air
And forces itself on me.
Jane Kohut-Bartels
Copyrighted, 2018
These poems and tanka above come from “Song of the Nightingale”, Amazon, 2015
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Tags: "Song of the Nightingale", Amazon.com, dversepoets, Haibun, poetry
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February 5, 2018 at 2:22 am
I liked your description of Lady Nyo waiting while the Moon slowly made its way across the sky.
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February 5, 2018 at 1:49 pm
Hi Frank! Thank you.
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February 5, 2018 at 8:19 pm
I love all those lines waiting in the moonlight… and the tears as stars.
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February 5, 2018 at 8:25 pm
Thank you, Bjorn. I didn’t consider there would be a theme. But so it goes. Thank you, dear friend, for reading and your kind comment. Am recovering from a virulent flu here. But recovering….
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February 5, 2018 at 8:30 pm
I loved the original but this version is wonderful, Jane, especially the anticipating sash untied!
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February 5, 2018 at 8:34 pm
Thank you, Kim! I feel bad that I jumped the gun and didn’t realize that there would be a theme. Well, next time…..thank you again. I think I will post the earlier parts of this story with the accompanying poetry sometime later this week.
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February 5, 2018 at 8:52 pm
So wistful and tender.
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February 5, 2018 at 10:31 pm
Thank you, Jane. And so non theme. LOOL! I’ll be over tomorrow. Blessings on your head.
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February 5, 2018 at 11:30 pm
Touching and lovely.
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February 6, 2018 at 12:25 am
The longing and disappointment are undeniable in this piece. Love the comparison of tears and stars.
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February 6, 2018 at 8:35 am
If you try hard enough you can usually stretch the ‘theme’ to fit the poem 🙂
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February 6, 2018 at 9:25 am
In spite of everything there’s such vast emptiness! Deeply touching.
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February 6, 2018 at 4:04 pm
Thank you, Sumana. That is an excellent observation.
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February 6, 2018 at 4:05 pm
Yeah, but I didn’t have the energy. Recovering from flu. Sorta.
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February 6, 2018 at 4:06 pm
Thank you, Mish. fighting flu (b strain right now apparently. comes after a strain.) will be over tonight.
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February 6, 2018 at 4:07 pm
Hello, Beverly my friend! Thank you for reading and your comment.
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February 6, 2018 at 4:10 pm
Take it easy. The theme police won’t get you 🙂
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February 6, 2018 at 4:12 pm
Some of them got my dna. LOL! thank you, jane…am heading back to sleep. It’s almost 2 weeks now and it really ages you.
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February 6, 2018 at 4:21 pm
Sleep is a great healer 🙂
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February 6, 2018 at 4:37 pm
Yes it is and I keep forgetting that! I’ve had back pain for a year and a week in bed seemed to take care of that! Blessings, Jane.
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February 6, 2018 at 5:26 pm
🙂
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February 6, 2018 at 9:26 pm
Ah, reminds me of all those ladies sighing and waiting hopelessly for that fickle charmer called Genji…
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February 6, 2018 at 10:45 pm
lol! Could be. Except it isn’t. I never could figure the ‘charm’ of Genji. Except he couldn’t seem to reject any sort of woman. Collected them, actually.
There aren’t too many good descriptions of Genji, except he did everything better than anyone else, dancing, performing, singing, etc. Kind of reminds me of Caligula.. LOL!
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