Sunday, 6 March 2022

Rengetsu and the war dead 2

RENGETSU also wrote another poem about the war dead 

Kiku mama ni 
Sode koso nurure 
Michi nobe 
Sarasu kabane wa
Ta ga ko naruran 

Hearing reports about recent event
This sleeves of mine are wet with tears
Along the road abandoned 
Corpses pushed to one side like trash
Whose child were they ? 

I have read too much into sarasu but it has more than one meaning

The ta in the last line is a very archaic variant of tare / dare 



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