Show Your Love - Akiko Yosano

I cannot bear
the faint smile
you display to others.

Lamp-Lit - Kisaka Ryo

I step into my apartment and first off
dart a look at the little lamp
on my answering-machine.

Chilly Dawn - Makoto Ōoka

So many times I fell cutting through the chilly morning wind
into a sea of clouds….
reindeer driven to a glacial region
walk with quiet gait in the feeble light

GSIS XIII: 745 - Izumi Shikibu

If completely
Cold were we

Let Us Be Midwives! An untold story of the atomic bombing - Sadako Kurihara

Night in the basement of a concrete structure now in ruins.
Victims of the atomic bomb jammed the room;
It was dark—not even a single candle.
The smell of fresh blood, the stench of death,
The closeness of sweaty people, the moans.

Made to punish men - Akiko Yosano

Made to punish men for their sins
The smoothest skin
The longest black hair…

Since the pure flow - Priest Nōren

Since the pure flow
Of Iwashimizu
Is unending,

Firefly - Miho Nonaka

Something not to be painted, but set

to music, Tanizaki wrote. Dusk,

when their light is the clearest,

My husband and I walk on the grass,

smelling of beer and garlic.

Reading a Wife - Yotsumoto Yasuhiro

A wife is not composed of words, so

Unlike a novel that takes till dawn

To devour she cannot be read

through in a night

A Camel - Murō Saisei

In thin shade

a camel that is fastened,

like an aged man,

Things That Give a Clean Feeling - Sei Shōnagon

An earthen cup. 

A new metal bowl. 

Were he my child - Ukoo

Were he my child,

He should not accompany you,

This night of snow!

Abe no Nakamaro - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

When I look abroad

O'er the wide-stretched "Plain of Heaven,"

Coarse the rush-mat roof - Tenchi Tenno

Coarse the rush-mat roof

Sheltering the harvest-hut

Into the depths (Jingika book of the Senzaishū, SZS XX: 1278) - Priest En'i

Into the depths

I traversed the

Road of the kami,

Dragonfly catcher - Fukuda Chiyo-ni

Dragonfly catcher,

How far have you gone today

In your wandering?

What about my songs - Yone Noguchi

The known-unknown-bottomed gossamer waves of the field

       arc coloured by the travelling shadows of the lonely,

       orphaned meadow lark;

five New Year haiku - Masaoka Shiki

New Year's greetings

with a plum branch

in hand

Poem by the Emperor - Emperor Yūryaku

Girl with your basket,

     with your pretty basket,

with your shovel,

     with your pretty shovel,

gathering shoots on the hillside here.

True Person Manifest Throughout the Ten Quarters of the World - Dōgen

The true person is

Not anyone in particular;