Koiwabite nagamuru sora no ukigumo ya waga shitamoe no keburi naruramu - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

恋ひわびて眺むる空の浮雲や
我が下燃えの煙なるらむ

Roma-ji: Koiwabite nagamuru sora no ukigumo ya waga shitamoe no keburi naruramu
English Translation: Pining with love,
I gaze up into the sky:
are those drifting clouds
the smoke that rises from
the fire smoldering in me
Meaning: Pining in love, I gaze up at the sky; are those drifting clouds the smoke of the fire that smolders hidden within me?
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 435

Gazing at the sky lost in the troubles of love, the poet wonders whether the drifting clouds are the smoke of love's fire smoldering deep within her. Seeing the clouds as the smoke of a flame she shows to no one, the poem conveys the pain of hidden love.
Poem 465 in this book begins with the same line, koiwabite, and asks whether the smoke of unending longing becomes clouds in the sky. Where this poem looks at the clouds and asks whether they are smoke, that poem asks whether the smoke rises to become clouds, so the two form a pair that sings of clouds and smoke from opposite directions.
The author, Suō no Naishi, was a lady poet named Nakako, a daughter of Taira no Munenaka, Governor of Suō. She served four emperors from Go-Reizei to Horikawa, and one of her poems appears in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

First line, 'koiwabite', means pining with love, the same opening line as poems 425 and 465 in this book.
Second line, 'nagamuru sora no', means of the sky I gaze at, lost in thought.
Third line, 'ukigumo ya', means the drifting clouds, the particle ya answered by ramu in the final line. In uki, drifting, sounds uki, sorrowful.
Fourth line, 'waga shitamoe no', means of the fire burning secretly within me, shitamoe being a fire that burns without showing.
Final line, 'keburi naruramu', means might they be the smoke, closing with the attributive of the conjectural ramu in answer to ya in the third line.
Author: Suo no Naishi
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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