Should I blame the moon
For bringing forth this sadness,
As if it pictured grief?
Lifting up my troubled face,
I regard it through my tears

(C) Saigyo
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Saigyo

• How Wonderful
• Sunk In Melancholy
• The Monk Saigyo
• Thought I Was Free
• Unbroken Gloom.
• Limitations Gone
• Not Stopping To Mark The Trail
• Now I Understand!
• In A Mountain Village
• As Banked Clouds
• Well Do I Know Myself
• Why Should I Be Bitter
• He Made No Promise
• Having Drifted Apart
• Winds Of Autumn
• O, How Sad
• Having Seen Them Long