Anonymous, Iwanami Shoten, Poetry

A Short poem from Japan





When we think that we alone
Are steering our ships at midnight,
We hear the splash of oars
Far beyond us.

~ Anonymous (Japan, c.736)
translated by Iwanami Shoten

Taken from "Great Short Poems from Around the World"
Edited by Bob Blaisdell

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