'The Sky Is Sad Weakness' - My Favourite Line Of The Poem^^ - Blog Posts

The snow lying on the roof tiles is a touch hard, the dead trees’ twigs are sleepy like a deer; six o’clock on a winter morning, my head too is sleepy.

The birds pass by singing - the garden earth is sleepy like a deer. - The wood has fled, the farmhouse has fled. The sky is sad weakness.    My heart is sad…

- Nakahara Chūya, “Winter Daybreak” from The Poems of Nakahara Chūya