Are nomi ya kaku koi suramu kakitsubata nitsurau imo wa ika ni ka aruramu

我れのみやかく恋すらむかきつはた
丹つらふ妹はいかにかあるらむ

Roma-ji: Are nomi ya kaku koi suramu kakitsubata nitsurau imo wa ika ni ka aruramu
English Translation: Is it I alone
who am longing so for her?
Iris flower-bright,
my rosy-cheeked darling one,
how can it be with her now?
Meaning: Am I the only one who longs like this? How is it with my beloved, rosy-cheeked and lovely as the iris flower?
Commentary: Book Ten Summer Love Poems 1986

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Love Expressed Through Grasses"
This poem wonders whether it is only the speaker who longs so, and imagines the heart of the lovely beloved, closing the group on grasses. The vivid color of the iris evokes the beauty of the beloved's cheeks, and the anxiety of not knowing that lovely person's heart shows through. The feeling akin to the lament of one-sided love in 1934 is entrusted to a summer flower.

In the first line, "are nomi ya," "ya" is an interrogative particle in kakari-musubi with "ramu" in the second line.
In the second line, "kaku koi suramu," "ramu" is present conjecture, and the poem breaks here.
The third line, "kakitsubata," the iris, functions like a pillow word leading into "nitsurau."
In the fourth line, "nitsurau imo wa," "nitsurau" means cheeks glowing red.
In the last line, "ika ni ka aruramu," "ka" is an interrogative particle in kakari-musubi with the attributive "ramu," closing by imagining the beloved's heart.
Source: Manyoshu
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