Sent to the reverend priest Shôku

darkness departing
darkness still deeper to walk
shine bright on the way
ahead of me o blesséd
upon the mountain rim moon


the pillowing arm
its sleeve carries the frost too
fallen everywhere
looking in the morning light
I behold it white as hemp


Sent to a personage during my illness

near nonexistent
I would have you beside me
now if only once
to have the memory live
as I go off from the world

 
lying down alone
I am so lost missing you
that I've forgotten
all my tangled long black hair
desiring who unbound it