道
9 poems of the road.
みち · in 9 of the 701 poems of Sōmokutō
- the road runs straight and I am lonelyThe Begging Bowl
- the road turns quiet and the buds of dokudamiThe Begging Bowl
- on today's road a dandelion has bloomedThe Begging Bowl
- the road I parted from runs straight onFrom Journey to Journey
- the road gives out and the trees are about to shed their leavesFrom Journey to Journey
- a good road to a good building — it's the crematoriumFrom Journey to Journey
- there is only this road spring snow fallingFrom Journey to Journey
- when I stop the road runs toward the sound of waterPersimmon Leaves
- the road through the middle of the water runs straightThe Crow
“The road runs straight and I am lonely.” The road was not a metaphor for life but the thing walked every day — so his road poems never smell of allegory.