When? When? How eagerly I've been waiting. Now that you are here What more do I want? いついつと 待ちにし人は 来たりけり 今は会ひ見て 何か思はむ - Ryōkan

The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away, and the weather is clear again. If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure. Abandon this fleeting world, abandon yourself, Then the moon and flowers will guide you along the Way.

It's a pity, a gentleman in refined retirement composing poetry: He models his work on the classic verse of China. And his poems are elegant, full of fine phrases. But if you don't write of things deep in your own heart, What's the use of churning out so many words?

O, that
The spring evening would last for good
When the fragrant cherry petals
Are reeling up and down!
香ぐわしき
桜の花
空に散る
春の夕べ
暮れずもあらなむ