Japanese Death Poems
Posted in Poetry by 10k films on October 2nd, 2009
All doctrines split asunder
Zen teaching cast away—
Four score years and one.
The sky now cracks and falls
The earth cleaves open—
In the heart of the fire
Lies a hidden spring.
—Giun, Japanese Death Poems
Seventy-one!
How did
a dewdrop last?
—Kigen, Japanese Death Poems