Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #115 Transformation … a stone for a pillow

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ishi makura shite ware semi ka naki shigure

a stone for a pillow
me, just another cicada …
so shrill, like crying

© Kawabata Boshatitle

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so shrill, this cicada
both with a bed of hard rock
I also cry this long night
the morning will come too soon
but shadows will linger on