Lake Biwa

by
Ryszarda L. Pelc


I know
Someday I will miss Lake Biwa,
I will be longing for Chikubushima
from my memory I will draw
the shape of sails, colorful butterflies,
and the white fishermen`s vessels
under the blue, water alike, sky.

In my dreams
I will see mountains on the horizon
at dawn silvery, golden in the sunset.
Echo
will repeat the songs of birds flying above white castle.
Someday I will miss Lake Biwa.
I know.


Copyright by Ryszarda Lida Pelc

(The poem has been published by the National Library of Poetry in anthology entitled “Best Poems of 1996,” it has also been translated into Japanese).