Japanese Hokku 7
On the flowering twig, Lo! the robin is singing. It must be spring.
Lewis Alexander
On the flowering twig, Lo! the robin is singing. It must be spring.
A robin lands on a blossoming branch and sings, and the speaker takes this as proof that spring has arrived. There is no grand argument or hidden meaning here—just a close, delighted attention to a single image.
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