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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Drop Spring Tree
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Dreams Greatness Summer
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Art Change One Liner Universe
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Deep Instrument One Liner
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Day Journey Myself Sea Wind
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Flower Pain See True World
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Flower Moon Nature See Thinking Yourself
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
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

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

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