Abigail Friedman, Momoko Kuroda, Poetry

Haiku : Momoko Kuroda

Kuroda Momoko is one of Japan's most active and highly regarded haiku poets. She has published six haiku collections over the span of forty years.Her poems are rich with references of cultural history of Japan, geographic locations, nature and famous poetic and spiritual figures of Japan.  


My whispered yearning
echoes in heaven's
vault-
oh rainy season moon!

  *

at this temple
by the edge of the lake
I wait for the moon

   *

I wait for fireflies
I wait as if for someone
who will never return

        *

in this life, I've grown
accustomed to the
lightning
accustomed to the
journey

~ Momoko Kuroda
(from 'I wait for the moon' 
translated with commentary by Abigail Friedman)

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