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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Fruit Imitation Myself
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Autumn Disappear Growth Myself Old
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Be Yourself Identity Imitation Myself Original
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Companion Humanity Leaving Mindset Mountain Universe Wisdom Yourself
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Accomplishment Deep Devotion Interest Yourself
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Dreams Summer Warrior
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree

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