1. The one I love so dearly— no one else receives such hatred from me! 2. The more one is honored at the office, the more dishonored at home— why would such a person return home!? 3. Down the mountain's slope in the melody of cascading streams rose petals drift... 4. The love in a poor man's heart, its beautiful expression...audibly; even more beautiful...in silence! 5. He dreams, and then in cigarette smoke's swirls lets all dreams drift away... 6. Stay with me with the lights dimmed, a glass of water close at hand. 7. With the moon upon the moon's body in the moon's light in the moon's caress... 8. The drowning man grasped some water hyacinths in his final moments and glimpsed a green death. 9. The freight truck with its aged body still tears up roads and byways... 10. With morning's light alone it finishes breakfast! Is this sun-love? Or poverty? 11. Even my gentle father becomes a raging fire whenever grain becomes heavier than income! 12. Beside the ruined house the guava tree standing in full youth— is it declaring a new war? 13. In a shop heavy paperweights rest on books of tree pictures. Even in the breeze...not a single leaf trembled. 14. Piercing dawn's mist the morning crow's call clears the fog, brightens the light. 15. The sea churns restlessly today and even tonight, on the neighboring island scatters thick clouds of stars. 16. Dear cat! Why so agitated? For fish? For mice? Or from lack of affection? 17. Dear dewdrop, may I wet these ugly hands in your sweet water and wash them clean? 18. My house burned down— let it be ash! But does that bar me from seeing my rose garden? 19. Life? Grass swaying in the wind, butterflies dancing from blade to blade ...what else is there! 20. This moonlight... is enough for love! Come close, in the blanket's warmth let tender coolness die!
Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred and One
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