Poesia e Primavera... Poetry and Spring...

Furu ike ya

kawazu tobikomu

mizu no oto

Matsuo Basho

The old pond,

A frog jumps in:

Plop!

Translated by Alan Watts

Into the ancient pond

A frog jumps

Water’s sound!
Translated by D.T. Suzuki

The old pond;

A frog jumps in —

The sound of the water.
Translated by Robert Aitken

Love After Love

The time will come

When with elation,

You will greet yourself arriving

At your own door, in your own mirror,

And each will smile at the other's welcome,

And say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your Self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

To Thyself, to the stranger who has loved you

All your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes.

Peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott

Some good poetry links:

http://www.poems.com/today.htm

http://www.poems.com/archive.htm

http://www.poets.org/

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm