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Passageway

dry desert parched with an air of hopelessness snow mountain far above the world of suffering continental winds that bring us where we need to go  

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Salvation, ScribblesLeave a Comment on PassagewayNovember 4, 2014April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

Newborn

I am as a calf feeding on the wild earth naked and clothed old and young living forever before sin, before the fall, here at rest in your innocent arms

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Scribbles - original writingLeave a Comment on NewbornOctober 26, 2014April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

The Song They Sang

The spirits Have gone away But in these ruins I hear the sacred sound Of the song they sang Original Text Modern Text Pronunciation 高市黒人 高市黒人 Takechi no Kuroto 樂浪乃 楽浪の Sasanami no 國都美神乃 国つ御神の Kunitsumi-kami no 浦佐備而 うらさびて Ura sabite 荒有京 荒れたる都 Aretaru Miyako …

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Babel - Japanese translations, ManyoshuLeave a Comment on The Song They SangSeptember 10, 2014April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

I Play the Song

Time has passed And I am not the same But in the wandering tune Of this torn-up palace I play the song of what has gone “Sasama” is the name of the palace and literally means “music waves” or “music wandering.” Original Text Modern Text …

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Babel - Japanese translations, ManyoshuLeave a Comment on I Play the SongSeptember 10, 2014April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

A Gift from God

This tree grows through all the rocks that cover the spring field rising through the mist until it’s far into the sky reaching beyond the heavens providing strength for generation after generation a gift from God Inspired by Manyoshu #29 Original Text Modern Text Pronunciation …

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Babel - Japanese translations, ManyoshuLeave a Comment on A Gift from GodSeptember 10, 2014April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

Veil

Dreaming of your bosom, I slip into the soft night, painted by a brush with the gray moonlight. Silk and satin, covering my gaze like curtains that hide the embers of desire— you smile at my madness. Each pulse begets the night, and each kiss …

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Scribbles - original writingLeave a Comment on VeilSeptember 1, 2014April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

This Gracious Field

Emperor Tenmu (d. 686)     Gentle men have praised With great and goodly words This gracious field So gorgeously gazed upon By the good men here Original Text Modern Text Pronunciation 大海人 大海人 Ooshi Aama no Mikoto (Emperor Tenmu) 淑人乃 淑き人の Yoki hito no 良跡吉見而 …

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Babel - Japanese translations, Emperor Tenmu, ManyoshuLeave a Comment on This Gracious FieldJuly 22, 2014April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

Little Dreams

In a house beyond the woods she lies with the sun, immersed in the light that filters in through maple leaves. Child of light, she climbs the hills of sight, leaf-by-leaf, strung up along a river lined in green—but the water does not move. Summer’s …

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Scribbles - original writingLeave a Comment on Little DreamsJuly 11, 2014April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

Bohemia

Filling me, the scent of cedars and pines along the rocks of centuries, the beaches of summers that have never ceased. Sometimes soft, sometimes hard, a dance of water and stone in the murmur of soulful woods. In ancient times there were kings and knights …

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Scribbles - original writingLeave a Comment on BohemiaMay 21, 2014April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

Halting

Halting hands, a kiss that misses the mark, discarded as a thrift store donation. Always the view turns in this kaleidoscope world, the skin of her and I as one. I journey through the shadows to join a congress of fire, and melt into the …

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Scribbles - original writingLeave a Comment on HaltingMay 19, 2014April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

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