1. Dense fog. The rickshaw-puller rings his bell harder... to chase away the fear in his heart. 2. Inside the house what wonderful air! The guitar strings keep brushing away dust... 3. Long twilight... A flock of crows separates garbage from garbage. 4. Our leftovers... their food. 5. The hole where the tree once took shelter, today that very hole receives shelter from the tree... 6. In autumn rain washing away... all the tears of kash flowers. 7. Alone in winter... I search for the scent of old love in someone dear's embrace. 8. Life's first storm! Though rain came with it, still instead of water only dust flew! 9. The blind boy still believes cranes fly only in the northern sky... Why did you tell him such a lie? 10. When rain falls... somehow the cat knows to rub against my feet! 11. One day the girl learned to feel love. The story after that... is of solitude. 12. Every person, somewhere or other, one day or another... encounters love. 13. The child licks and eats the mucus from his nose. Oh! Winter has come, it seems...! 14. For a long time rain falls and falls... Grandfather keeps teaching how to play the harmonica... 15. Knowing I won't have the one I love, what love truly means— she's the one who teaches that! 16. In sun, in storm, in fields and meadows, the farmer with his plow in struggle, in contentment... 17. Each arrow of blazing sun streams of fire on the house roof! 18. The bridge that was once built in a storm, today broke, didn't it, in gentle drizzle! 19. In continuous rain the bridge breaks, providing wood for crossing the canal. 20. In heavy rain, in thick fog, near or far... distance is all the same!
Bonsai of Thought: One Hundred Fifteen
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