For temples, from the Poetry app spin.
from Around Unmun Temple at Ch’Eongdo / by Ko Un, translated by Sonny Jung and Hillel Schwartz
Young faces
like dew,
like hoarfrost.
Japanese Poetry
DPF / Nukada
For birds, from The Penguin Book of Women Poets.
from When, loosened from the winter’s bonds / by Princess Nukada (anthology from 650-800) the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkðkai translation
When, loosened from the winter’s bonds,
The spring appears,
The birds that were silent
Come out and sing,
The flowers that were prisoned
Come out and bloom;
But….
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