age three
there was no past for me
age five
my past went back to yesterday
age seven
my past went back to topknotted samurai
age eleven
my past went back to dinosaurs
age fourteen
my past agreed with the texts at school
age sixteen
I look at the infinity of my past with fear
age eighteen
I know not a thing about time
(translated from the Japanese by Harold Wright)
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Shuntaro Tanikawa (b.1931) is one of Japan's preeminent poets. He is the author of more than sixty books of poetry, the lyrics to the theme song for the movie Howls Moving Castle and he has translated Charles Schultz's Peanuts into Japanese.
One sad apple
12 years ago
too true which evoked a chuckle - thanks
ReplyDeleteI loved the thought behind this poem - that the older we get the more that we understand that we know nothing. At least if we're smart.
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