ひとりぬる人やしるらん秋の夜をながしとたれか君につげつる Sleeping alone I know it all too well—that An autumn night is Long to someone You’ve been telling! #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #miscellaneouspoem #和歌 #雑歌 wakapoetry.net/gsis-xvi-906/

ちりかかるもみぢの色はふかけれどわたればにごる山川の水 The fallen, scattered Scarlet leaves’ hue is Deep, indeed, yet In crossing it, I muddy The waters of a mountain stream. #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #Japan #autumn #和歌 #秋 #秋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-v-540/

つゆをのみくさばのうへとおもひしはときまつほどのいのちなりけり Simply as a dewdrop, Resting atop a blade of grass— So I did think; Such a short thing Is life. #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #laments #和歌 #哀傷歌 wakapoetry.net/sgsis-xviii-12…

暁のつゆはまくらにおきけるを草葉のうへとなにおもひけん At the dawning Dewdrops upon my pillow Have fallen, but Resting atop a blade of grass— Is that what you think of me? #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/gsis-xii-701/

おもひあれば袖にほたるをつつみてもいはばや物をとふ人はなし I am filled with passion’s fire, but Even should my sleeves fireflies Wrap up, ‘What do you ponder on?’— There’s no one to enquire of me… #wakapoem #poem #love #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xi-1032/

われゆゑのなみだとこれをよそにみばあはれなるべき袖のうへかな Should my Tears she View from afar, Would she pity them Resting atop my sleeves! #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/szs-xii-757/

うしといひて世をひたふるにそむかねば物おもひしらぬみとや成りなん How hard it is, you say, but This mundane world, entirely You are unable to abandon, so Gloomy thoughts unknown To you seem, do they not? #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #和歌 #雑歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xviii-174…

たれとしもしらぬ別のかなしきはまつらがおきをいづるふな人 Who that is I know not, but parting’s Sadness strikes On the offing at Matsura where He departs on his boat… #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #Japan #和歌 #parting wakapoetry.net/skks-ix-883/

おほゐ川ゐせきの水のわくらばにけふはたのめしくれにやはあらぬ Upon the Ōi River At the weirs the waters Seethe—for once Today you had promised me The evening, had you not? #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xiii-1194/

かなしさもあはれもたぐひおほかるを人にふるさぬことの葉もがな Sorrow and Sadness, such terms Are many, but If only folk had never used before The words I’d say to you! #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/scss-xiii-789/

忘れゆくことしなければたえだえにみえけむくももそらめなるらむ Forgetting you is Something I’ve not done, so Intermittently Appearing clouds is Pie in the sky, I’d say! #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌　 wakapoetry.net/shigeie-shu-23…

わすれゆく人ゆゑそらをながむればたえだえにこそ雲もみえけれ Forgetting me, He is so upon the sky I turn my gaze, where From time to time, indeed, Clouds, too, do show themselves! #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌　 wakapoetry.net/skks-xiv-1295/

うきながらきえせぬ物は身なりけりうらやましきは水のあわかな How cruel it is that What remains here yet Is me— How I envy The foam upon the waters! #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #laments #和歌 #哀傷歌 wakapoetry.net/sis-xx-1313/

ありしだにうかりしものをあかずとていづくにそふるつらさなるらん Even these past days Heartlessness is something I want more—saying that, then Where might you lay on Additional cruelty? #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/gss-xiii-952/

ちらぬ間は花をともにて過ぎぬべし春よりのちのしる人もがな While still unscattered The blossom is my only friend, and When ‘tis past And spring is gone, then Would I have folk to know! #waka #tanka #poem #wakapoem #spring #springpoem #和歌 #春 #春歌 wakapoetry.net/kys-i-39/

とふことをまつに月日はこゆるぎのいそにやいでて今はうらみん For a visit I have waited days, months And more, so to Koyurugi’s Rocky shore should I go out And gaze with hatred at the beach? #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/gss-xiv-1049/

ぬる夢にうつつのうさもわすられておもひなぐさむほどぞはかなき On appearing in a dream, then Reality’s cold cruelties I will forget, and Be comforted For a brief, empty moment. #wakapoem #wakapoetry #poem #love #Japan #lovepoem #和歌 #恋 #恋歌 wakapoetry.net/skks-xv-1384/