Life in the Land of the Rising Sun

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Tanka for Today

One in English:
Have you had a day
When nothing went right at all,
And yet in the end
Everything worked out better
Than it probably would have?

One in Japanese:
あの百合は
突然死んだ
その後出た
不思議雑草
もっと綺麗だ

ano yuri ha
totsuzen shinda
sono go deta
fushigi zassou
motto kirei da

Translation:
That lily
Died suddenly.
The strange weeds
That came later
Are more beautiful.

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