WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.400 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.400 --> 00:00:11.230 align:middle line:84% Also, in Daitokuji which is this whole compound of where 00:00:11.230 --> 00:00:15.280 align:middle line:84% Ryoko-in is, I wrote a series of love poems 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:17.530 align:middle line:90% called "Love's Progress." 00:00:17.530 --> 00:00:20.820 align:middle line:90% 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:25.230 align:middle line:90% These poems fell into a trilogy. 00:00:25.230 --> 00:00:31.260 align:middle line:84% When I am moving a poem and from a feeling into the form 00:00:31.260 --> 00:00:38.000 align:middle line:84% it will be, the poem says to me what it has to do. 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:40.010 align:middle line:90% All poets know that. 00:00:40.010 --> 00:00:42.170 align:middle line:90% And this came out-- 00:00:42.170 --> 00:00:48.080 align:middle line:84% this series of poems on "Love's Progress" in trilogies. 00:00:48.080 --> 00:00:51.050 align:middle line:90% They were in groups of three. 00:00:51.050 --> 00:00:53.970 align:middle line:90% I won't read them all. 00:00:53.970 --> 00:00:58.050 align:middle line:84% But I will read some from each trilogy. 00:00:58.050 --> 00:00:59.990 align:middle line:84% And I will read one trilogy complete 00:00:59.990 --> 00:01:03.710 align:middle line:90% so will you see how they flow. 00:01:03.710 --> 00:01:06.800 align:middle line:84% Now the first trilogy is "The Wish." 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:09.510 align:middle line:90% 00:01:09.510 --> 00:01:13.350 align:middle line:84% And I'll read the first one of "The Wish." 00:01:13.350 --> 00:01:18.450 align:middle line:84% "Yesterday, Homer said, Dear Ruth, one rosy fingered dawn 00:01:18.450 --> 00:01:20.430 align:middle line:90% from Greece is yours. 00:01:20.430 --> 00:01:23.280 align:middle line:90% My gift, your poet wreath. 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:24.450 align:middle line:90% Take it. 00:01:24.450 --> 00:01:29.100 align:middle line:84% Our restless sun's release out of unfleeting time, 00:01:29.100 --> 00:01:32.370 align:middle line:90% light rare unconquerable. 00:01:32.370 --> 00:01:39.150 align:middle line:84% I sang this sun intrinsic and long templed air revels in love 00:01:39.150 --> 00:01:44.010 align:middle line:84% and the expression, epic poet, his face gains 00:01:44.010 --> 00:01:46.380 align:middle line:90% is your sun's moment. 00:01:46.380 --> 00:01:47.715 align:middle line:90% Award me this." 00:01:47.715 --> 00:01:52.200 align:middle line:90% 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:54.390 align:middle line:90% That was three of "The Wish." 00:01:54.390 --> 00:01:58.080 align:middle line:90% Then we come to "The Wind." 00:01:58.080 --> 00:02:00.780 align:middle line:84% I will read this entire trilogy which is also 00:02:00.780 --> 00:02:03.850 align:middle line:90% one of Kobori-san's favorites. 00:02:03.850 --> 00:02:07.680 align:middle line:84% "Which came first-- the key or the lock, love or desire, 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.619 align:middle line:84% in or out, enclose me, incline me, call, 00:02:10.619 --> 00:02:12.960 align:middle line:90% mock, question quickly. 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:15.220 align:middle line:90% Ask me to doubt. 00:02:15.220 --> 00:02:17.250 align:middle line:90% I doubt, therefore I am. 00:02:17.250 --> 00:02:18.150 align:middle line:90% We are. 00:02:18.150 --> 00:02:19.800 align:middle line:90% I doubt the landscape. 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:20.760 align:middle line:90% And it leaps. 00:02:20.760 --> 00:02:22.140 align:middle line:90% It is. 00:02:22.140 --> 00:02:26.820 align:middle line:84% Doubt-- great smile of Descartes pleasures the question. 00:02:26.820 --> 00:02:31.560 align:middle line:84% Who can keep everything everything unproved? 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:36.570 align:middle line:84% Doubt-- my lock is a key to truth. 00:02:36.570 --> 00:02:37.500 align:middle line:90% Second. 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:40.620 align:middle line:90% Doubt as a key, locks truth. 00:02:40.620 --> 00:02:44.730 align:middle line:84% Unlocks mind pigeons to refute, regain, 00:02:44.730 --> 00:02:48.360 align:middle line:84% fly through visions, nest on sweet rocks, 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:52.350 align:middle line:84% be clouds for morning, peck at pain. 00:02:52.350 --> 00:02:54.450 align:middle line:90% Truth locked is truth. 00:02:54.450 --> 00:02:56.340 align:middle line:90% Unlocked is love. 00:02:56.340 --> 00:03:01.470 align:middle line:84% Watch proverbs falling about us, gold red autumn 00:03:01.470 --> 00:03:05.670 align:middle line:84% leaves, an above whisper, are we impervious? 00:03:05.670 --> 00:03:08.430 align:middle line:84% We are gold red proverbs falling. 00:03:08.430 --> 00:03:12.990 align:middle line:84% We are love's leaves all ground grazing. 00:03:12.990 --> 00:03:18.090 align:middle line:84% Leaves, wind torn, sun smoothed in passage, 00:03:18.090 --> 00:03:22.950 align:middle line:84% hushed from tree speech, brown on the ground, sigh 00:03:22.950 --> 00:03:27.180 align:middle line:84% against each other, no rage, no doubt in changing. 00:03:27.180 --> 00:03:32.940 align:middle line:84% What is found, unfound, felt or unfelt blows by. 00:03:32.940 --> 00:03:34.410 align:middle line:90% Winds rise. 00:03:34.410 --> 00:03:37.470 align:middle line:90% The air responds in song. 00:03:37.470 --> 00:03:42.120 align:middle line:84% There is no ground without a sky, no sky that 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:44.270 align:middle line:90% does not have a song. 00:03:44.270 --> 00:03:50.300 align:middle line:84% Softly desire, love's wind word, stirs the laid leaves, 00:03:50.300 --> 00:03:52.265 align:middle line:90% is held and heard." 00:03:52.265 --> 00:03:55.740 align:middle line:90% 00:03:55.740 --> 00:03:59.440 align:middle line:84% I'll read you the third one of the next trilogy which 00:03:59.440 --> 00:04:02.200 align:middle line:90% is "The Wait." 00:04:02.200 --> 00:04:08.110 align:middle line:84% "Love mantle me with snow with floods icicle crusted, 00:04:08.110 --> 00:04:10.930 align:middle line:90% white in steep stark ravines. 00:04:10.930 --> 00:04:16.300 align:middle line:84% My wishes like buds need winter's cool and thornless 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:17.410 align:middle line:90% sleep. 00:04:17.410 --> 00:04:20.529 align:middle line:84% Your face not seen is not one face. 00:04:20.529 --> 00:04:26.050 align:middle line:84% Your hero, one night's firefly, wanders the dark. 00:04:26.050 --> 00:04:29.080 align:middle line:90% Love every place is yours. 00:04:29.080 --> 00:04:32.290 align:middle line:90% Why ask then, where am I? 00:04:32.290 --> 00:04:35.380 align:middle line:90% Love mantle me with snow. 00:04:35.380 --> 00:04:40.870 align:middle line:84% I'll hear your phoenix wings when you draw near." 00:04:40.870 --> 00:04:44.620 align:middle line:84% I'll read the third of "Love Arriving." 00:04:44.620 --> 00:04:45.790 align:middle line:90% "Touch me. 00:04:45.790 --> 00:04:47.470 align:middle line:90% The night is luminous. 00:04:47.470 --> 00:04:49.150 align:middle line:90% Your hands steal the wind. 00:04:49.150 --> 00:04:51.430 align:middle line:84% Steal my breath with your breath. 00:04:51.430 --> 00:04:56.440 align:middle line:84% Steal my loneliness, bury it star deep until death. 00:04:56.440 --> 00:05:01.360 align:middle line:84% Does a moon label the sky, love, or is the sky your arms? 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:05.800 align:middle line:84% A bird startled, soars in air, pearl and mauve. 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:07.090 align:middle line:90% Is it my heart? 00:05:07.090 --> 00:05:09.130 align:middle line:90% I have not stirred. 00:05:09.130 --> 00:05:14.920 align:middle line:84% Words, swans on silence, glint, glide, brush. 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:16.750 align:middle line:90% Touch me again. 00:05:16.750 --> 00:05:17.740 align:middle line:90% I am love hushed." 00:05:17.740 --> 00:05:21.130 align:middle line:90% 00:05:21.130 --> 00:05:24.090 align:middle line:84% I will read one of "Love Here"'s trilogy. 00:05:24.090 --> 00:05:26.280 align:middle line:90% "Eternity is too private. 00:05:26.280 --> 00:05:28.440 align:middle line:90% May I kiss you, lie close? 00:05:28.440 --> 00:05:31.650 align:middle line:84% Oh, yes, my pillow pilot spire gate. 00:05:31.650 --> 00:05:34.230 align:middle line:84% All love is true love as this is. 00:05:34.230 --> 00:05:36.120 align:middle line:90% All love is great love. 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:39.150 align:middle line:90% Kind, no fringe on living. 00:05:39.150 --> 00:05:42.600 align:middle line:84% Dear cyclonic heart flesh by my flesh, 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:47.640 align:middle line:84% firm lips, impinge eternity, image my part, 00:05:47.640 --> 00:05:51.810 align:middle line:84% close fisted customable days fade, fail. 00:05:51.810 --> 00:05:53.820 align:middle line:90% You enslave them, love. 00:05:53.820 --> 00:05:55.890 align:middle line:90% Stay. 00:05:55.890 --> 00:05:59.910 align:middle line:84% Love is not one, is two, is we, alive now. 00:05:59.910 --> 00:06:02.160 align:middle line:90% Now, not then or soon. 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.740 align:middle line:90% Close as waking in privacy. 00:06:04.740 --> 00:06:08.460 align:middle line:90% Wide, wit in its cosmic cocoon. 00:06:08.460 --> 00:06:11.700 align:middle line:84% Love whispers, risk me, name me must. 00:06:11.700 --> 00:06:13.950 align:middle line:90% Carry me, count me advisable. 00:06:13.950 --> 00:06:17.370 align:middle line:84% Like banner and breeze, we adjust, adjoin. 00:06:17.370 --> 00:06:19.800 align:middle line:90% Flair the invisible. 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:23.220 align:middle line:84% Air needs its flags to move believed. 00:06:23.220 --> 00:06:26.130 align:middle line:84% Love without lovers cannot breathe. 00:06:26.130 --> 00:06:30.868 align:middle line:90% 00:06:30.868 --> 00:06:32.160 align:middle line:90% "The doubt" and "The movement." 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:37.740 align:middle line:90% 00:06:37.740 --> 00:06:39.340 align:middle line:84% I'll read the third of "The movement." 00:06:39.340 --> 00:06:41.110 align:middle line:90% "How can I claim you, love? 00:06:41.110 --> 00:06:45.130 align:middle line:84% You fly word above word into strange woods. 00:06:45.130 --> 00:06:47.530 align:middle line:84% Query quicker than the hawk's eye, 00:06:47.530 --> 00:06:50.320 align:middle line:90% looming in loops of likelihoods. 00:06:50.320 --> 00:06:54.370 align:middle line:84% Bounding through lillied moments, moth, dove, maze 00:06:54.370 --> 00:06:57.190 align:middle line:90% muted wind whispered want. 00:06:57.190 --> 00:06:59.440 align:middle line:84% How can I question when you're off? 00:06:59.440 --> 00:07:01.870 align:middle line:90% Ways of being itinerant. 00:07:01.870 --> 00:07:05.560 align:middle line:84% Yet when you light, kiss me, confide, 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.940 align:middle line:90% foreverness is at my side." 00:07:09.940 --> 00:07:13.000 align:middle line:84% And the final one of "second wind." 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.300 align:middle line:84% "Love strength like the tiger's smile, 00:07:16.300 --> 00:07:19.600 align:middle line:84% springs from an invisible impetuous proud wind 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:21.100 align:middle line:90% flipped guile. 00:07:21.100 --> 00:07:24.970 align:middle line:84% Lightning by name, yet lily still. 00:07:24.970 --> 00:07:27.490 align:middle line:90% In autumn falls what is to fall. 00:07:27.490 --> 00:07:30.880 align:middle line:84% The plum tree's promise, purpled plums. 00:07:30.880 --> 00:07:36.400 align:middle line:84% Rain shadows sighing leaves and all things sun heavy. 00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:38.650 align:middle line:90% Why ask what comes? 00:07:38.650 --> 00:07:41.260 align:middle line:90% Love's legend moves with clouds. 00:07:41.260 --> 00:07:43.480 align:middle line:90% Leaves vows. 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:48.150 align:middle line:84% What was not there cannot fall now." 00:07:48.150 --> 00:07:50.000 align:middle line:90%