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Poem for Today - March 2, 2014
March - National Poetry Month

Silent, But ...

I may be silent, but

I’m thinking.

I may not talk, but

Don’t mistake me for a wall

                   - Tsuboi Shigeji 

Shigeji Tsuboi: ‘Silent, but ...’ from The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, trans. Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite (Penguin Books, 1964). trans. © Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Twaite, 1964, p. 191. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books. Ltd.