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Thomas McAuley
Among my poems on the beginning of winter.
春といひ夏とすぐして秋風の吹上のはまに冬はきにけり
Spring, they say, then
Spend the summer where
The autumn breeze
Blows up the sand on Fukiage Beach—
Winter has come.
Kinkai wakashū 316
#waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #winter #winterpoem #和歌 #冬 #冬歌
春といひ夏とすぐして秋風の吹上のはまに冬はきにけり
Spring, they say, then
Spend the summer where
The autumn breeze
Blows up the sand on Fukiage Beach—
Winter has come.
Kinkai wakashū 316
#waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #winter #winterpoem #和歌 #冬 #冬歌
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