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larryhammerFor poetry Monday:
“Aren’t you who you once were?,” Shun’e, tr. Thomas McAuley
Aren’t you who you once were?
Aren’t I who I was then?
How strange that
All we trusted in
Has changed.
kimi ya aranu / wa ga mi ya aranu / obotsukana / tanomeshi koto no / mina kawarinuru
君やあらぬ我が身やあらぬおぼつかなたのめしことのみなかはりぬる
Shun’e (1113-c.1191) was a Heian nobleman (from the Minamoto clan), Buddhist priest (his lay personal name is not recorded), and poet (I translated one of his in One Hundred People, One Poem Each). This is from a poetry competition, and won its round, in part because it’s a deliberate echo of a poem by Ariwara no Narihira (which I’ve also translated).
---L.
Subject quote from Hello, Adele.
“Aren’t you who you once were?,” Shun’e, tr. Thomas McAuley
Aren’t you who you once were?
Aren’t I who I was then?
How strange that
All we trusted in
Has changed.
kimi ya aranu / wa ga mi ya aranu / obotsukana / tanomeshi koto no / mina kawarinuru
君やあらぬ我が身やあらぬおぼつかなたのめしことのみなかはりぬる
Shun’e (1113-c.1191) was a Heian nobleman (from the Minamoto clan), Buddhist priest (his lay personal name is not recorded), and poet (I translated one of his in One Hundred People, One Poem Each). This is from a poetry competition, and won its round, in part because it’s a deliberate echo of a poem by Ariwara no Narihira (which I’ve also translated).
---L.
Subject quote from Hello, Adele.
no subject
Date: 31 March 2025 03:00 pm (UTC)