Reikeiden no nyōgo uta’awase 11

Love without meeting

Left (Win in a certain book)

かひもなきこひをのみしてよのなかにあはぬためしをわれやのこさむ

kai mo naki
koi o nomi shite
yo no naka ni
awanu tameshi o
ware ya nokosamu
Pointlessly
Yearning is all I do—
In this mundane world, that
We never meet: will that habit
Be all that is left to me?

Tadami

21[i]

Right (Win)

人をよにこひにこがるるわがみよりいくらのなみだここらいづらん

hito o yo ni
koi ni kogaruru
wagami yori
ikura no namida
kokora izuran
For her within the night
My yearning smoulders on, yet
From my sorry self
How many tears
Might burst out in floods?

22


[i] An almost identical poem is included in Saigū nyōgo kishi joō uta’awase (21).

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