Sudden Enlightenment after BUSON Yosa no

SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT

Cecity stumbled
stick through moonlight shaft tumbled
on me and laughed

7 March 1975 revised 28 December 2008 robi03_0043_buso01_0001 PHT_JXX

after BUSON Yosa no 1716_1784

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SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT

A blind man groping
through a brilliant shaft of moonlight, stumbled
into me - and laughed!

translator unknown

BUSON Yosa no 1716_1784

poem by Jonathan Robin
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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