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Watching the moon at dawn, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out. by Izumi Shikibu
"In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours." Izumi Shikibu (974?-1034?), from The Ink Dark Moon
Ink Dark Moon (poetry of Onono Komachi and Izumi Shikibu) is a "stepping out of the circle" of one's own experience. Lovely, and sad.
In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours ~Izumi Shikibu~
Sunk in reverie I seem to see in the river fireflies my soul gone forth in longing from my body. __ Izumi Shikibu