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From the morrow

by Yamabe no Akahito

Yamabe no Akahito

From the morrow
Would I pick new herbs
But in my marked out fields
Both yesterday and today
The snow has kept on falling




Quotes of the Day

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
• Galileo Galilei


Poems of the Day
  • Cecilia Woloch
    from Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem
    by Cecilia Woloch
    In Warsaw, blackbird girls swoop down in flocks the old town square a swirl of dark-eyed dark-haired girls in brilliant skirts who circle laughing at my waist throw up their arms to beg for sweets