Poem

Kazue Shinkawa

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Tweet Song

My big brother’s wheat-stalk whistle
went tweet
when he blew it

I wonder why
mine doesn’t tweet

A lark said tweet
up in the sky

© Translation: 2008, Takako Lento

TWEET SONG

© 1978, Kazue Shinkawa
From: Nono Matsuri
Publisher: Kyohiku Shuppan Center, Tokyo

Kazue Shinkawa

Kazue Shinkawa

Kazue Shinkawa was born in 1929 in Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan. Since her first book of poetry, The Sleeping Chair, came out in 1953, more than 30 books of her poetry have been published including many “selected poems” and two complete works. She has also published half a dozen books of poetry for children and compiled many anthologies. For the female poets in Japan, Kazue Shinkawa is an importan...

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My big brother’s wheat-stalk whistle
went tweet
when he blew it

I wonder why
mine doesn’t tweet

A lark said tweet
up in the sky

© 2008, Takako Lento
From: Nono Matsuri

Tweet Song

My big brother’s wheat-stalk whistle
went tweet
when he blew it

I wonder why
mine doesn’t tweet

A lark said tweet
up in the sky

© 2008, Takako Lento

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