Poetry
Winter 1985
About Old Age Blues in the Sunset
This book contains forty-four poems which I have written during the last ten years, from my sixties to seventies. Previously I was thinking of Old Age Sorrow (Ban-nen Mujo) for […]
Poetry
Winter 1985
A Cruel End to My Desire
One day my aging wife said, “I don’t want us to sleep together any more.” “All right, if you say so,” I answered without paying attention. So, I went upstairs, […]
Poetry
Winter 1985
My Daughter and I
I am old enough to die of old age. Prepared for lonely death on the road, I want to go on a wandering journey. When I am deep in such […]
Poetry
Winter 1985
The Vestiges of Passion
I’ve become seventy-four years old. I can’t make it any more. But still my passion lingers As a proof that I am alive. Being old is much more trouble than […]
Poetry
Winter 1985
Envoy
I woke up in the middle of night feeling my halberd rise. But it drooped down in the twinkling of a sleepy eye.