One of my favorite authors, translated by Sōiku Shigematsu, a Japanese priest and free verse poet who also lectured and did research in the States. I came across Sōiku thanks to his essay “A Zen Harvest: Japanese Folk Zen Sayings: Haiku, Dodoitsu, and Waka“
Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
Deadline: 6th June 2018
Poem by Natsume Soseki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsume_S%C5%8Dseki
translated by Soiku Shigematsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Diku_Shigematsu
Picture by Joshua Fuller https://unsplash.com/@joshuafuller
this is a jisei – a death poem