Kyō kurenu hana no chirishi mo kaku zo arishi futatabi haru wa mono o omou yo - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

今日暮れぬ花の散りしもかくぞありし
二たび春は物を思ふよ

Roma-ji: Kyō kurenu hana no chirishi mo kaku zo arishi futatabi haru wa mono o omou yo
English Translation: Today has grown dark:
when the blossoms fell as well,
it was just like this:
twice in every spring we come
to sink in somber thought
Meaning: Today the spring has ended. It was just like this when the blossoms fell. Twice in every spring we are plunged into sorrowful thought.
Commentary: Book Two Spring Poems II 135

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the close of spring when presenting a hundred-poem sequence in the reign of Emperor Horikawa"
Like the preceding poem, this was composed on "the close of spring" for the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequence. Today spring has ended; when the blossoms fell, the poet recalls, it was just as sad, and so spring makes one brood twice, once when the flowers fall and once when the season ends. By counting the sorrow of falling blossoms and the sorrow of spring's departure as "twice," the poem gathers the themes of the whole second book of spring into a single poem and brings the book to a close.
The author, "Kawachi," was the daughter of Fujiwara no Nagasuke, Senior Assistant Minister of the Treasury. She served Princess Shunshi, daughter of Emperor Go-Sanjō and a former Ise Priestess, and was also called Former Ise Priestess's Kawachi. She was one of the poets of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequence.

First line, "kyō kurenu": "nu" is perfective: "today has grown dark," overlaying the end of a day with the end of spring. It picks up "kyō no kururu o" from the preceding poem, 134, and the poem pauses here.
Second line, "hana no chirishi mo": "shi" is the attributive past auxiliary: "when the blossoms fell, too." Where the book's opening poem, 77, watched the blossoms "from when they bloomed until they fell," this final poem looks back on the time they fell.
Third line, "kaku zo arishi": "it was like this," with "zo" closing on the attributive "shi." This line has six syllables instead of five, and the poem pauses again here.
Fourth line, "futatabi haru wa": "twice" means once when the blossoms fall and once when spring ends.
Fifth line, "mono o omou yo": "mono o omou" is to brood, and "yo" is exclamatory. Gathering the book's two themes, falling blossoms and regret for spring, into one poem, it closes the second book of spring poems.
Author: Kawachi
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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