Blossoms and Children
Blossoms and Children
For Children Killed in a Smallpox Epidemic
When spring arrives
From every tree tip
Flowers will bloom,
But those children
Who fell with last autumn's leaves
Will never return.
Poem by Ryokan
from Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan, translated by John Stevens. Published by Shambala in Boston, 1996.
ASL translated by Jolanta Lapiak.
Poem by Ryokan
from Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan, translated by John Stevens. Published by Shambala in Boston, 1996.
ASL translated by Jolanta Lapiak.
