Mount Ogura Is Shedding Tears Part VII

The 小倉山が泣いている event on 12 March went well in spite of drizzle. There were three rendezvous, and all together about 20 people came. Some collected rubbish, others wrote poems, a few did both. If you haven't yet sent Stephen your poems, quickly please! The tea/beer party at Tree of Repose went on until 7. If you wish to help the project this year (rubbish clearing, felling dead pines, writing poetry, etc.), contact Okiharu Maeda of ACE, the supporting NPO aceokiharu@yahoo.co.jp in Eng/Jap. ACE won an Encouragement Prize in December for the Ogura project at the annual Osaka NPO Awards.　Here are a few of the poems collected from the day ...

谷風に乗り手冬は去りにけり

Wind in the valley - / Its passenger, winter / Departs.

(Zen'ichiro Nakamura)

spring mist - / at the once barren summit / trees this high

(duro jaiye)

High, high above the river / A broken television / Flies into space.

(David McCullough)

Train crosses a bridge, / Enters a tunnel - / Once more / The winter rapids sound.

(Tito)