Japanese Hokku 8
Looking up the hill The road was long before me. This road is longer.
Lewis Alexander
Looking up the hill The road was long before me. This road is longer.
A traveler pauses at the bottom of a hill and looks up. The road already seems long from where they stand, stretching ahead and upward. Then the speaker quietly corrects that first impression: “This road is longer.” It is not just a comment about distance.
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