Kinkai wakashū 523

Love and the moon.

かずならぬ身はうき雲のよそながら哀とぞおもふ秋のよの月

kazu naranu
mi wa ukigumo no
yoso nagara
aware to zo omou
aki no yo no tsuki

Unlike all those countless
Others, I, drifting with the clouds
So distant,
Feel so fondly for
The moon this autumn night.

523

Waka Poetry