In the deep mountains,
not knowing which way to go,
with an anxious voice
a calling bird calls out—
how uncertain it sounds.
- Meaning
- In the deep mountains, not knowing which way to go, a calling bird cries out in an anxious voice, deepening the feeling of unease.
- Commentary
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Spring Songs, Book One
When one is lost and anxious, a bird calls out without showing itself, its anxious cry stirring an even greater unease.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- Pale green threads are spun and hung upon the boughs; threading white dew into shining beads— are these the willows of spring?
- When many birds sing in the spring that chatters on, all things are made new— yet I alone grow old as each new spring comes round.
- When spring comes round, the geese return north again; on the white clouds’ road they go their distant way— would that I could send word.
- Seeing spring’s haze rise, the geese go, leaving it all; to a flowerless town— are they so used to living where no blossoms bloom?