walking in the warmth — camellias fall plop plop
nukūte arukeba tsubaki potapota
1936–1937 · At Gochū-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
nukūte arukeba tsubaki potapota
1936–1937 · At Gochū-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
Santōka Alarm is an iOS app that wakes you each morning with a single poem.
Set a poem you love as your alarm.
Walking through the mild sunlight, one finds camellias dropping with a soft plop. Camellias fall whole rather than shedding petals, and that weight comes through. The poem is built entirely of words that strike the body directly — nukūte (warm), potapota (plop plop) — a spring poem felt before it is parsed.