1. Home »
  2. World Poets »
  3. Yamabe no Akahito

On Abe Island's beaches

by Yamabe no Akahito

Yamabe no Akahito

On Abe Island's beaches
Where comorants dwell
Waves pound
Never ceasing at this time
I think on Yamato.




Quotes of the Day

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
• Joe E. Lewis


Poems of the Day
  • Carl Sandburg
    Shagbark Hickory
    by Carl Sandburg
    IN the moonlight under a shag-bark hickory tree Watching the yellow shadows melt in hoof-pools, Listening to the yes and the no of a woman’s hands, I kept my guess why the night was glad.