Verse Recalled, Under the lamplight 2015

Saturday 14 March 2015

Verse Recalled, Under the lamplight
拾遺詩篇

里行
RI Kohr


　　灯下

帰るところは
清水のように澄んでいた
貧しさだけの自分


　
Under the lamplight

The place where I am back
is myself only indigent
clear like spring water

Verse Recalled Mountain Hut by RI Kohr. Translated by Google

Verse Recalled
Mountain Hut
by RI Kohr

Selected Poems

Village Journey

Hut

When was the last time I visited here?
It is now near the end of summer, and once it was the end of autumn.
A misty rain was falling in that small hut.
I held my hands over the stove to dry my shoes.
Young me, all those who were young.
Ah, I have always wished for a scene like that day.
A bright fire, hot tea, and a hard chair.
If only those things could last.
I have thought many times that most of my life would have been fulfilled.
Until today.
It is a lively place I visited for the first time in a long time.
People's voices are coming and going, and corn is being sold outside.
It is difficult to think of the dark, gloomy sky of a long time ago.
It is not that my heart is troubled now, but the dark scenery of the past may be me.
But the stove burning red in the center of it is infinitely nostalgic and dear.
My beloved, I walked from here.