Thanks Kylie Have to love days when you make it out of a store with a bag of books like that.
I started reading the Japenese Death Poems last night and all I have to say is 'wow'. They are so intense and in so few words are able to evoke emotion that some writers can never tap in their 800 page monsters.
The one that stood out to me the most was:
Inhale, exhale
Forward, back
Living, dying;
Arrows, let flown each to each
Meet midway and slice
The void in aimless flight-
Thus I return to the sorce.
Yeah, I know, its a bit morbid that I'm reading death poetry... but the emotion in these words is so alive. I can't help but find it a bit ironic that so many of these poems have made me feel alive just by reading them.