Haiku: Climbing Mount Fuji

How slowly
Slowly must I go?…

Fall Down Seven Times

This, in Japan, is how they say’t:
“Fall down sev’n times, stand up eight.”

So Many Times

So many times we stumble
So many times we fall —
All we can do is to keep on trying…

when hand-sawing firewood

toandfro
toandfro
toandfro…