Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred Eighty-Five

1. Heavy rain.
Motionless car.
Me inside.
The world in sorrow.

2. Why do leaves
commit suicide in flocks
when they see winter coming?
But they all marry when winter arrives?

3. Love's map
is the entire sky.
Separation's map
is all of life.

4. You who have not seen my blood—
is that why you cannot understand my poetry?

5. The foam that rises when you push a beer mug—
it holds as much melancholy as habit.

6. Does rice then smile with gleaming white teeth
looking at the starving?

7. That madman's love
hung with the clothesline drying women's undergarments.

8. Hearing the poet read his own verse,
the mosquitoes took pity and bit him at will.

9. Those imprisoned by some belief—
don't tell them stories of light
if you don't want to be murdered.

10. When the eagle sleeps,
its talons are still sharp.

11. Come, let's go on pilgrimage.
Come, let's wander through our own hearts.

12. One who has nothing to do—
why should he give you time?
His unemployed time...is for celebration
in his own way.

13. Who gets caught in the moon's net?
One who never found love?
Or one who found love and lost it?

14. Having lost yourself there,
what are you searching for here?

15. When does death occur?
When lifespan ends?
Or when life ends?

16. When the beloved dies,
the woman is born.

17. The one surrounded by laughter—
tell me, why does he cry the most?

18. Learning to steal skillfully,
the fly rises in caste
to become a bee.

19. All the earth's secret words—
do roots betray them
to the leaves?

20. Does man grow up enduring such hardship
only to suffer more?
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