Koiwabite taenu omoi no keburi mo ya munashiki sora no kumo to naruramu - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

恋ひわびて絶えぬ思ひの煙もや
空しき空の雲となるらむ

Roma-ji: Koiwabite taenu omoi no keburi mo ya munashiki sora no kumo to naruramu
English Translation: Pining with love,
this longing burns without end:
will its smoke, I wonder,
rise into the empty sky
and turn into a cloud
Meaning: Pining in love, will the smoke of this longing that never dies away rise into the empty sky and become a cloud?
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 465

The poet wonders whether the smoke of love's fire, burning without end, will rise into the empty sky and become a cloud. In smoke that vanishes into an empty sky, the poem overlays a love that will never be rewarded.
Poem 435 in this book begins with the same line, koiwabite, and asks whether the drifting clouds are the smoke of a hidden fire. Where that poem looks at the clouds and asks whether they are smoke, this poem asks whether the smoke will rise to become clouds, and the two form a pair that sings of clouds and smoke from opposite directions.

First line, 'koiwabite', means pining with love, the same opening line as poems 425 and 435 in this book.
Second line, 'taenu omoi no', means of a longing that never ends, the hi of omoi echoing hi, fire, a word related to the smoke in the third line.
Third line, 'keburi mo ya', means the smoke too, the particle ya answered by ramu in the final line. It is the same word as keburi naruramu in the final line of poem 435 in this book.
Fourth line, 'munashiki sora no', means of the empty sky, layering munashi, empty, and sora, sky.
Final line, 'kumo to naruramu', means will it become a cloud, closing with the attributive of the conjectural ramu in answer to ya in the third line.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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