The heart as a drum,
and the mouth as a trumpet:
that's a human life.
Mar 26, 2025
Mar 26, 2025 at 4:58 AM UTC
The heart as a drum,
and the mouth as a trumpet:
that's a human life.
Poem by the Zen-monk Muso Soseki (1274-1351), included in the 1986 collection "Japanese Death Poems", compiled by Yoel Hoffmann: "Thus have I rolled my life throughout / inside and out, reclined, upright / What is all this? / A beating drum / a trumpet’s blare / No more"
Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
