Hokku 35
Song of sea in rain, Voice of the sky, earth and men! List, song of my heart.
Yone Noguchi
Song of sea in rain, Voice of the sky, earth and men! List, song of my heart.
Yone Noguchi’s three-line hokku reads like a brief moment of attention caught in sound. It begins with the noise of the sea under rain, then widens to a voice made of sky, earth, and human life all speaking together.
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