“Year’s end, all
corners of this
floating world, swept.”
Matsuo Bashō
more infosource: On Love and Barley: Haiku of Bashō (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985), 59.
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category: December, haiku, new year
medium: Poetry
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language / And next year’s words await another voice.”
T. S. Eliot
more infosource: “Little Gidding,” in The Waste Land and Other Poems (New York: Penguin, 2003), xxi.
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category: future, language, new year, past, words
medium: poetry
“With a hat on my head
And straw sandals on my feet,
I met on the road
The end of the year.”
Matsuo Bashō
more infosource: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and Other Travel Sketches (New York: Penguin, 1966), 60.
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medium: poetry
new year