Celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day and National Poetry Month
summer grasses---
all that remains
of warriors’ dreamsMatsou Basho (1644 -1694)
While in Kyoto Japan in 1986, I took a tour of the stunningly beautiful Kiyomizu-dera temple. I mentioned that the view from the deck was visual poetry to a elderly Japanese man standing near me. He recited this poem, and two others in response.
