The Riddle

I dressed a lot of persons

I patched clothes to many others

The rich as well as the poor

I took off thorns

To the sick I pierced boils

I also pierced plenty of ears

Most people need me

They can’t do without me

I adorned too many brides

I made their grooms look handsome

So that they please their admirers

I protected the miserable

I covered and wormed them

With the suitable cloth

I cared a lot for the wrecked

I provided them with food in plenty

I realized later on

That I was doing only good

But as if I was digging in water

No profit coming in return

From the ungrateful man

Yet I kept accomplishing my duty

What I said is an example

I took it from our rich repertory

All the words I’ve used

Are about my doings

And those of the needle

Which remains naked.

ahcene mariche

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Poems in English 

• Early summer rain by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Dawn by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Coolness by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Calligraphy of geese by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Buying leeks by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Blown from the west by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Blow of an ax by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Before the white chrysanthemum by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• A bat flits by Yosa Buson by Yosa Ёса Buson Бусон 与謝蕪村
• Untitled XXVII by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XXVI by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XXV by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XXIX by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XXIV by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XXIII by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XXII by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XXI by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XX by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XVIII by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре
• Untitled XVII by Yunus Emre by Yunus يونس امره Emre Юнус Эмре

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