five hundred friends,
waiting to touch me-
autumn deepens
-Gabi Greve, 2005.
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"If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly feel the pity of things.
The beauty of life is in its impermanence."
–Yoshida Kenkō (吉田兼好 1283-1352), Essay 7 of the 'Tsurezuregusa' (徒然草).
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