きえぬべき露のうき身の置所いづれの野べの草葉なるらん Surely to vanish As the dewdrops is my pitiful lot, and The place I fall Will be in some meadow Among the blades of grass, no doubt… #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #Japan #和歌 wakapoetry.net/shkks-xv-1422/

おひかぜに八重のしほぢをこぐ舟のほのかにだにもあひみてしかな The pursuing wind Tracks ‘cross eightfold tidal paths To reach the boat a’rowing out, Its sails, so distant, but Even a glimpse of you would do! #wakapoem #poem #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xi-1072/

あふことはこれやかぎりの旅ならん草のまくらも霜がれにけり Will our meeting Here be the limit of Our journey? Even our grassy pillow Seared by distant frosts… #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xiii-1209/

たちかへる人をもなにかうらみまし恋しさをだにとどめざりせば If he rises to return Why should he Be the object of my despite? If even his love He does not leave behind… #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/szs-xiv-852/

ねざめしてたれかきくらん此比の木葉にかかる夜半のしぐれを Starting from sleep Who else might be listening, I wonder, At such a time To the rustling leaves In a midnight shower? #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #winter #winterpoem #和歌 #冬 #冬歌 wakapoetry.net/szs-vi-402/

春くれば袖のこほりもとけにけりもりくる月しやどるばかりに Now that spring has come, The ice atop my sleeves Has melted, and The drops of moonlight are All that lodge there… #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #Japan #和歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xvi-1440/

秋はつるさ夜ふけがたの月みれば袖ものこらず露ぞおきける At the start of autumn As brief night begins to break As I gaze upon the moon Not a spot upon my sleeves I Is left untouched by dewdrops. #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #autumn #和歌 #秋 #秋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-v-486/

うき人をしのぶべしとは思ひきやわが心さへなどかはるらん Of that heartless man I would secretly be fond, I thought, so why Does my heart, too, Seem to have changed? #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/szs-xv-918/

あら磯の岩にくだくる浪なれやつれなき人にかくる心は Along the stony shore Upon the rocks shattering Are the waves—just like That cruel man does Break my heart, perhaps? #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌　#aiart wakapoetry.net/szs-xi-653/ pic.twitter.com/Gc9Yhi1m7u

久方のあまつをとめが夏衣雲井にさらすぬのびきのたき Eternal Heavenly maidens Their summer garb Rinsing among the clouds— The cataract at Nunohiki #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #Japan #和歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xvii-1653/

あさ日かげにほへる山のさくら花つれなくきえぬ雪かとぞみる Daybreak sunrise Lights the mountains’ Cherry blossom— A stubbornly resistant Snowfall do they seem to be? #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #spring #springpoem #和歌 #春 #春歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-i-98/

ひぐらしの鳴くゆふぐれぞうかりけるいつもつきせぬ思ひなれども The sundown cicadas Crying in the evening, truly, Is so hard to bear, for Always endless Gloom does fill me, yet… #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #autumn #和歌 #秋 #秋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-iv-369/

こめやとは思ふものからひぐらしのなくゆふぐれはたちまたれつつ Wondering if you’ll come Gloom fills my thoughts, so when The sundown cicadas’ Cry in the evening So do I, ever awaiting you… #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/kks-xv-772/

おもひねのわれのみかよふゆめぢにもあひみてかへる暁ぞなき Loving you, I sleep, but I, alone, go back and forth Upon the path of dreams; To glimpse and meet you, then return— I have no such dawnings. #wakapoem #poem #love #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/scss-xv-973/

君をのみ思ひねにねし夢なればわが心から見つるなりけり You, alone, it was I loved when I fell asleep and Dreamed of you, but It was my heart’s longing That I did see. #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/kks-xii-608/

身をすててふかきふちにも入りぬべしそこの心のしらまほしさに I shall cast off all restraint, and Into a deep pool, indeed, Plunge— For at the bottom your heart’s depths I would come to know… #wakapoem #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/gsis-xi-647/

ますかがみ心もうつる物ならばさりともいまはあはれとや見む Could this clear glass Reflect my heart, as well, Could it do that, then Well, now how Pitiful would I appear? #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/szs-xii-776/

神なびのみむろの山をけふみれば下草かけていろづきにけり When upon divine Mimuro Mountain I gaze today, Even the undergrowth has Taken on autumn hues! #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #autumn #和歌 #秋 #秋歌 wakapoetry.net/sis-iii-188/

高砂の尾上のさくらさきにけりと山のかすみたたずもあらなん On Takasago’s Heights the cherries Have bloomed; O, I wish the haze around the nearby peaks Would not rise at all! #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #spring #springpoem #和歌 #春 #春歌 wakapoetry.net/gsis-i-120/

我がやどのそともにたてるならのはのしげみにすずむ夏はきにけり At my house, In the grounds behind stands An oak tree, leaves So lush that coolness To summer has come. #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #summer #summerpoem #和歌 #夏　#夏歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-iii-250/

はかなくもこむよをかけて契るかなふたたびおなじ身ともならじを How unreliable to vow that Throughout the world to come We will be linked! For once more within the selfsame Flesh we might not be… #wakapoem #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌　 wakapoetry.net/szs-xv-921/

あさぼらけおきつる霜の消えかへりくれまつほどの袖を見せばや With dawn’s first light The fallen frost Vanishes away; Waiting for the evening, for Then would I show you my sleeves… #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌　 wakapoetry.net/skks-xiii-1189/

うき人の月はなにぞのゆかりぞとおもひながらもうちながめつつ That cruel one: Why with the moon does She have a bond?— While wondering that Do I ever gaze upon it… #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌　 wakapoetry.net/skks-xiv-1266/

旅の空夜半のけぶりとのぼりなばあまのもしほ火たくかとやみん Should into my travel’s skies One night as smoke I rise, The fisherfolk seaweed salt fires Kindling—would it appear so, I wonder? #tanka #poem #wakapoem #travel #travelpoem #和歌 #羈旅歌 wakapoetry.net/gsis-ix-503/

秋の夜の月に心のあくがれて雲井に物をおもふ比かな On an autumn night The moon my heart Draws forth, and What lies beyond the clouds is The object of my thoughts then! #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #autumn #和歌 #秋 #秋歌 wakapoetry.net/sks-iii-106/

一夜とてよがれしとこのさむしろにやがてもちりのつもりぬるかな Just for one night,’ he said, but At night my bed lies abandoned, with A chilly, threadbare blanket Where the dust Is piled high! #wakapoem #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/szs-xiv-880/

わすれじの行末まではかたければけふをかぎりの命ともがな Never to be forgotten In all the days to come is Hard to believe, so If only today was the limit Of my life… #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xiii-1149/

ひとりぬる人やしるらん秋の夜をながしとたれか君につげつる Sleeping alone I know it all too well—that An autumn night is Long to someone You’ve been telling! #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #miscellaneouspoem #和歌 #雑歌 wakapoetry.net/gsis-xvi-906/

ちりかかるもみぢの色はふかけれどわたればにごる山川の水 The fallen, scattered Scarlet leaves’ hue is Deep, indeed, yet In crossing it, I muddy The waters of a mountain stream. #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #autumn #和歌 #秋 #秋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-v-540/

つゆをのみくさばのうへとおもひしはときまつほどのいのちなりけり Simply as a dewdrop, Resting atop a blade of grass— So I did think; Such a short thing Is life. #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #laments #和歌 #哀傷歌 wakapoetry.net/sgsis-xviii-12…

暁のつゆはまくらにおきけるを草葉のうへとなにおもひけん At the dawning Dewdrops upon my pillow Have fallen, but Resting atop a blade of grass— Is that what you think of me? #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/gsis-xii-701/

さびしさにうきよをかへてしのばずはひとり聞くべき松のかぜかは If the loneliness of This cruel world is a burden Unendurable, then All alone I can listen to The wind passing through the pines. #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #Japan #和歌 wakapoetry.net/szs-xvii-1138/

おもひあれば袖にほたるをつつみてもいはばや物をとふ人はなし I am filled with passion’s fire, but Even should my sleeves fireflies Wrap up, ‘What do you ponder on?’— There’s no one to enquire of me… #wakapoem #poem #love #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xi-1032/

われゆゑのなみだとこれをよそにみばあはれなるべき袖のうへかな Should my Tears she View from afar, Would she pity them Resting atop my sleeves! #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/szs-xii-757/

うしといひて世をひたふるにそむかねば物おもひしらぬみとや成りなん How hard it is, you say, but This mundane world, entirely You are unable to abandon, so Gloomy thoughts unknown To you seem, do they not? #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #和歌 #雑歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xviii-174…

たれとしもしらぬ別のかなしきはまつらがおきをいづるふな人 Who that is I know not, but parting’s Sadness strikes On the offing at Matsura where He departs on his boat… #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #Japan #和歌 #parting wakapoetry.net/skks-ix-883/

おほゐ川ゐせきの水のわくらばにけふはたのめしくれにやはあらぬ Upon the Ōi River At the weirs the waters Seethe—for once Today you had promised me The evening, had you not? #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xiii-1194/

かなしさもあはれもたぐひおほかるを人にふるさぬことの葉もがな Sorrow and Sadness, such terms Are many, but If only folk had never used before The words I’d say to you! #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/scss-xiii-789/

”時くれば花咲くものを蕾にて散らさむとするきみを恨みぬ” ”何ゆゑに日本の基地の半分を背負はされゆく小さき沖縄” 大城勲『歌集　小さき沖縄』（短歌新聞社） #WakaPoem by Isao Ohshiro #NoWar #okinawa #玉城デニー知事を支持します 🌊🐢☮️🐢🌊