Love at a mountain retreat the morning after
消えなまし今朝尋ねずは山しろの人こぬやどのみちしばの露
I would fade away!
This morning, unvisited
In Yamashiro
At a place where no one comes
With the dew upon the roadside grasses…
Kinkai wakashū 507
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消えなまし今朝尋ねずは山しろの人こぬやどのみちしばの露
I would fade away!
This morning, unvisited
In Yamashiro
At a place where no one comes
With the dew upon the roadside grasses…
Kinkai wakashū 507
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌
February 6, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Recalling love beneath the moon.
春やあらぬ月は見しよの空ながらなれし昔の影ぞ恋しき
Is this not that spring?
The moon is as I beheld it that night
Within the skies, yet
I had grown accustomed, long ago,
Her face, so much more dear to me…
Kinkai wakashū 496
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌
春やあらぬ月は見しよの空ながらなれし昔の影ぞ恋しき
Is this not that spring?
The moon is as I beheld it that night
Within the skies, yet
I had grown accustomed, long ago,
Her face, so much more dear to me…
Kinkai wakashū 496
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌
January 22, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Composed on the conception of love at a famous location
おきつ波うち出のはまの浜ひさぎしをれてのみや年のへぬらん
Waves from the offing break
Upon the beach at Uchi’ide, where
The bushes on the beach
Do simply droop
With the passing years.
Kinkai wakashū 490
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌
おきつ波うち出のはまの浜ひさぎしをれてのみや年のへぬらん
Waves from the offing break
Upon the beach at Uchi’ide, where
The bushes on the beach
Do simply droop
With the passing years.
Kinkai wakashū 490
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌
January 15, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Composed on the conception of love at a famous location
かぜをまつ今はたおなじ宮城ののもとあらの萩の花のうへの露
Awaiting the wind,
Now and evermore, I am the same as,
On Miyagi plain
The sparse bush-clover
Blooms topped with dew…
Kinkai wakashū 489
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌
かぜをまつ今はたおなじ宮城ののもとあらの萩の花のうへの露
Awaiting the wind,
Now and evermore, I am the same as,
On Miyagi plain
The sparse bush-clover
Blooms topped with dew…
Kinkai wakashū 489
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌
January 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
#writerscoffeeclub 1/11. Name a poem (or poet!) which has influenced you.
I write classical waka because of: Murasaki Shikibu
•───⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅───•
Heian flower
Vanished bloom
Noble heart
Inkstone Washi
Living again
#wakapoetry #shortpoem #nmwcc #nmprompts
I write classical waka because of: Murasaki Shikibu
•───⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅───•
Heian flower
Vanished bloom
Noble heart
Inkstone Washi
Living again
#wakapoetry #shortpoem #nmwcc #nmprompts
Murasaki Shikibu - Wikipedia
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January 11, 2026 at 9:15 PM
#writerscoffeeclub 1/11. Name a poem (or poet!) which has influenced you.
I write classical waka because of: Murasaki Shikibu
•───⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅───•
Heian flower
Vanished bloom
Noble heart
Inkstone Washi
Living again
#wakapoetry #shortpoem #nmwcc #nmprompts
I write classical waka because of: Murasaki Shikibu
•───⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅───•
Heian flower
Vanished bloom
Noble heart
Inkstone Washi
Living again
#wakapoetry #shortpoem #nmwcc #nmprompts
Composed on the conception of love at a famous location
むこのうらの入江のすとりあさなあさなつねにみまくのほしき君かも
At the bay of Muko
Seabirds on the inlet’s sandbars
Every single morning
Always do I long to see—
That’s my desire of you!
Kinkai wakashū 484
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌
むこのうらの入江のすとりあさなあさなつねにみまくのほしき君かも
At the bay of Muko
Seabirds on the inlet’s sandbars
Every single morning
Always do I long to see—
That’s my desire of you!
Kinkai wakashū 484
#wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM