1. New moon— smoke rising from ashes of dead fire... 2. At the cowherd's call the cattle herd from horizon to earth! 3. Each drop of rain is a full moon! 4. Seeing sunrise beyond the lake the duckling runs toward the current. 5. In the gentle drizzle of night-dew waiting for a new child the whole village stays awake. 6. The rose is blooming! How peacefully we remain at a distance... as if nothing has happened! 7. When spring arrives our clusters of sorrow somehow fade away... 8. When flocks of sparrows dart through evening's moon, then begins...the bustle. 9. Night's glow! A hut atop the mountain! Where stars fall one by one! 10. Along the lake's surface the wind's wrinkled countenance— an aged map. 11. In a street child's fireworks finally begins...the festival! 12. In autumn's breeze through mother's old bones winter's premonition. 13. On winter nights... a single cigarette stands guard. 14. Watching the sun rise each dark head of the sunflowers lifts high...one by one! 15. On each petal of the rose raindrops hold and spread the petals themselves... 16. In the tears of flame trees the sky melts so completely... like a transparent mirror! 17. In midnight's moonlight layer upon layer of empty shore bears clear marks of past sins! 18. From the wound of the waning moon even the deer flee the forest! 19. Though storms may trample the traveler's shadow, still the traveler walks unwavering... 20. In the broken glass of the window even the full moon weeps with half its body!
Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred Twenty-Two
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