What holds Sorrow and Joy in its lap?
‘Setsunai’ implies what has faded from
brightness, what can’t quite be recalled,
beyond knowing that everything passes.
Snow dropping on snow-spangled trees.
We share this deep new reality for
which no words suffice…maybe one
in Japanese, expressing the loss of
ten thousand things. Something quiet
in the snow, snow, the silencing snow.
Poems for my granddaughter are up: https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2023/12/13/for-ula-two-poems/.
Love and ease for 2024,
Penn
Painting, The Cosmic Egg (a Cardinal’s egg) by Jim Kemp
Rest and the rest is eas(ier) is my motto…
Penn Kemp 