Ayamegusa netaku mo kimi ga towanu kana kyō wa kokoro ni kakare to omou ni - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

あやめ草ねたくも君が訪はぬかな
今日は心にかかれと思ふに

Roma-ji: Ayamegusa netaku mo kimi ga towanu kana kyō wa kokoro ni kakare to omou ni
English Translation: Sweet flag of the feast,
how galling that you, my love,
have not come calling,
when today I wish that you
would hang upon my heart
Meaning: How bitter that you do not come to visit, when today, as the sweet flag is hung from the eaves, I wish I hung upon your heart.
Commentary: Book Two Summer Poems 127

On the Tango festival, when sweet flag is hung from the eaves, the poet wishes the beloved would likewise keep her in mind, yet bitterly he does not come. Skillfully using words associated with the sweet flag, the poem voices resentment at one who does not visit.
From poem 127 through poem 134 in this book come poems on the sweet flag, which was hung from the eaves and whose roots were compared for length at the Tango festival on the fifth day of the Fifth Month.

First line, 'ayamegusa', is the sweet flag used at the Tango festival, leading to ne in the second line.
Second line, 'netaku mo kimi ga', is a pivot word in which ne is both the root of the sweet flag and the first syllable of netashi, galling.
Third line, 'towanu kana', means you do not visit, with the exclamatory kana. The poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, 'kyō wa kokoro ni', uses kyō, today, for the Tango festival on the fifth day of the Fifth Month.
Final line, 'kakare to omou ni', is a pivot word in which kakaru means both hanging sweet flag from the eaves and weighing on one's heart. Root and hang are associated words of the sweet flag.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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