"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Monday, December 22, 2008
Mourning Emptiness
Of all the things I have lost Of all the things I have lost I cherish only their loss... It strikes me as strange I do not miss the things I have lost I only feel the hole they left When I mourn the loss I am mourning the emptiness
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