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Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>I leap from depths<br />of debt into the skies: <br />autumn of the dragon. </p><p>Ginka (d. 1725)
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Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>The earth is fragrant <br />with plum petals falling <br />on my way home.</p><p>Fuwa (d. 1712)<br />
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Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>Rise, let us go— <br />along the path lies<br />the clear dew.</p><p>Fujo (d. 1764)
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Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>Deutzia blossoms: <br />I, who rebuked the lazy, <br />sleep late into the morning.</p><p>Hakuto (d. 1727)
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Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>Ah! Whenever drawn<br />To thank my body for all—<br />My very last breath.</p><p>Ensei (d. 1725)
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Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>Seeds of the lotus<br />In every which direction<br />Playfully jumping.</p><p>Donsui
(d. 1729)<br />
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Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>Headed heavenward,<br />Light like the absence of sin—<br />The ship of the moon.</p><p>Dōhaku<br />(d. 1675)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/deathPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathPoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/micropoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>micropoetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mementoMori" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mementoMori</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/calligraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>calligraphy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>zen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>moon</span></a></p>
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>Memento mori. </p><p>Four ways of drawing death, and one <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>haiku</span></a> </p><p>With sunrise comes light<br />and the quotidian burden<br />of being alive.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/deathPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathPoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/micropoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>micropoetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mementoMori" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mementoMori</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/calligraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>calligraphy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>zen</span></a></p>
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>A raging sea <br />thrown from the deck— <br />a block of ice.</p><p>Choha (d. 1740)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/micropoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>micropoetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/deathPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathPoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>zen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/river" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>river</span></a></p>
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>I long for people— <br />then again I loathe them: <br />end of autumn.</p><p>Chogo (d. 1806)</p><p>Chogo was, in at least one aspect, my soulmate. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/micropoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>micropoetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/deathPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathPoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>zen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/autumn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>autumn</span></a></p>
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>It lights up <br />as lightly as it fades: <br />a firefly.</p><p>Chine (d. 1688)</p><p>This poem was composed by her brother when Chine passed away. She was 28 years old.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/micropoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>micropoetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/deathPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathPoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>zen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/firefly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>firefly</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/siblings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>siblings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sister" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sister</span></a></p>
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>Of late the nights <br />are dawning <br />to plum-blossom white.</p><p>Buson (d. 1783)</p><p>This is such a lovely poem. </p><p>The word “akaru”, here translated as “dawn”, means bright, to suggest the way the sky lightens at dawn. The kanji for “akaru” 明 is a sun (日) next to a moon (月) (the brightest things in the sky!) but in this poem, I like to imagine, also the transition from night to day.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/micropoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>micropoetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/deathPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathPoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>zen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dawn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/light" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>light</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>moon</span></a></p>
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>The running stream<br />is cool—the pebbles<br />underfoot.</p><p>Chiboku (d. 1740)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/micropoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>micropoetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/deathPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathPoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>zen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/river" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>river</span></a></p>
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>Now spring has come <br />into my world: <br />farewell!</p><p>Bainen (d. 1905)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/micropoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>micropoetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/deathPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathPoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>zen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/spring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>spring</span></a></p>
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦<p>Blossoms scent the air <br />a carefree birdsong <br />echoes truth.</p><p>Gozan (d. 1733)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/micropoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>micropoetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/deathPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathPoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>zen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/birdsong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>birdsong</span></a></p>
Bound homeward
under clear summer skies:
bird feathers, flowers.
Keido (d. 1787)
To a melody of prayer
disappears the moon—
my place of rest.
Hakuni (d. 1792)
Replied to Antonio Páez 
@paezha This kanji is my wallpaper now.
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