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Remembering Slow Days on a Pitch-Black Night

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Slow days
gathered
and drifted away
into long-ago days

Yosa Buson, haiku




...
Spring must have come
cherry blossoms fell
still, everything the same

I woke from the brightness of the world, glad,
and it was still a pitch-black winter night

How fortunate
that in the dark dawn it is only me

How truly fortunate
that you are still in the light

Remembering the slow days that have drifted far away
Waiting for a slow morning in the depths of a winter night

...
I came here to write down a haiku that rose in half-sleep,
but since sleep won't come and morning won't come either, I tap out a few lines


This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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