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Tiring the heart--
mountains and ocean
too much beauty

---Santōka
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scent of narcissi
in the night I hear
your beauty

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narsissien tuoksu
yössä kuulen kuinka
kaunis olet

4 comments:

Vida said...

You still have narcissi? :) Enjoy them :))
I love all the "k"-s in the Finnish version. Sounds like the flowers really call you :)

Möme said...

Thank you, Vida! Something else was lost in the translation as well - in Finnish the last line refers to second-person singular. ;-)

diana l. said...

A wonderful juxtaposition, despite anything lost in translation

Anonymous said...

..much subtle magic..>>spiros