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RomanticYone Noguchi

The Azaleas

The flashes of azaleas red and white Die and burn and die again : The sun and clouds part and meet and part again. Among the clouds of azaleas white and red I see one flash never die : O the idyl beauty of her face! Hey for my heart's delight ! Is she not waiting for my love and song Among the clouds of azaleas red and white ?
SadYone Noguchi

Songs of Insects

Under the night of full breath, Fired by the wine the golden goblet-moon spilt, The insects are mad in their tremour of hearts : There are a thousand voices of joy and dance, But only one song of sadness and ghost. O passionate song of ones, I believe, returned to the ground, Now awakening to the sad songs they still left unsung ! The spirit of a song is never content till it is fully sung : O the passionate songs of night and wounded heart, Are they not the cry of my soul of fever and dream ?
DreamyYone Noguchi

Fantasia

Bits of straw and clay and woman's hair, — So shall be builded my house : Oh to lose the world and gain a song ! Let the clouds flit through the window at the left ; The dancers shapeless in pain and pride, From the right dance in as a tide : A spirit of pagan days, sick in joy, That rose at the sound of their stamping feet, I'll sing a song that makes the seas the hills. (Morality begins, I am afraid, where I stop my song.) Rags to roll me in, pieces of dream, So with my heart of nocturnal fear ; I have choice of the sky red in memory and art. Let the stars fall in the garden rose : The leaves and my souls in a thousand guises Hurry to the ground to build a grave.
DreamyYone Noguchi

Zephyr

Zephyr comes unaware, And sings underneath my arms : When it makes a sudden stop, I will finish the song of its wandering soul. Zephyr comes like a Beauty Underneath my arms smiling, smiling. She looks upon me, and says : " Shall we hide us from birds and men under the roses ? " Zephyr comes with doleful heart, Sighing, sighing, underneath my arms. I whisper a tale of a Life of Gold, We fly into the Palace of the Sun.
DreamyYone Noguchi

Hokku 71

The nightingales under the boughs, Sighing now white, now red, Sing a pearl song Over the greyness of earth.
InspiredYone Noguchi

Hokku 41

The ancient song of my heart Comes and goes in Life's light. Sudden, a glow, a rainbow. Draws its line across the breast of my soul.
DreamyYone Noguchi

Hokku 37

To become tree-man, Oh, songs given back by the winds ! What joy of no-man.
InspiredYone Noguchi

Hokku 36

But the march to Life . . . Break song to sing the new song! Clouds leap, flowers bloom.
DreamyYone Noguchi

Hokku 30

Bits of song . . . what else? I, a rider of the stream, Lone between the clouds.
ContemplativeYone Noguchi

Hokku 20

"Let day pass, "Let night break," — So the frogs sing morning and eve.

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