Dalai Lama and Issa

Today is the birthday of one of the most revered people on the planet: the Dalai Lama. Here is an Issa poem, one little candle on the cake of infinity:


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spring peace--
last year which tree root
was my pillow?

Issa
translated by David Lanoue

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May we all get his birthday wish.


best,
Don

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