Dogen’s Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way, 61

Impermanence:

To what is the world compared

It’s the moon dwelling

In the dewdrops strewn

From the beak of a water fowl.

Mujô:

Yononaka-wa

Nani-ni tatoen

Mizutori-no

Hashi-furu tsuyu-ni

Yadoru tsukikage

無常：

世中は

何にたとへん

水鳥の

はしふる露に

やどる月影