/lit/ - Literature

Can /lit/ recommend me any poetry like this?
davidbowles.us/poetry/tominos-hell-by-saijo-yaso/

i.e. Narrative symbolist poetry. Most of the western symbolist poetry I've read doesn't really have a strong sense of narrative.

I'd look more into Japanese symbolist poetry but I don't speak the language and embarrassingly little of it has been translated.

>Poetry
>Translation
I know.

Elder sister vomits blood,
younger sister’s breathing fire
while sweet little Tomino
just spits up the jewels.

All alone does Tomino
go falling into that hell,
a hell of utter darkness,
without even flowers.

Is Tomino’s big sister
the one who whips him?
The purpose of the scourging
hangs dark in his mind.

Lashing and thrashing him, ah!
But never quite shattering.
One sure path to Avici,
the eternal hell.

Into that blackest of hells
guide him now, I pray—
to the golden sheep,
to the nightingale.

How much did he put
in that leather pouch
to prepare for his trek to
the eternal hell?

Spring is coming
to the valley, to the wood,
to the spiraling chasms
of the blackest hell.

The nightingale in her cage,
the sheep aboard the wagon,
and tears well up in the eyes
of sweet little Tomino.

Sing, o nightingale,
in the vast, misty forest—
he screams he only misses
his little sister.

His wailing desperation
echoes throughout hell—
a fox peony
opens its golden petals.

Down past the seven mountains
and seven rivers of hell—
the solitary journey
of sweet little Tomino.

If in this hell they be found,
may they then come to me, please,
those sharp spikes of punishment
from Needle Mountain.

Not just on some empty whim
Is flesh pierced with blood-red pins:
they serve as hellish signposts
for sweet little Tomino.

Can /lit/ recommend me any poetry like this?
davidbowles.us/poetry/tominos-hell-by-saijo-yaso/

i.e. Narrative symbolist poetry. Most of the western symbolist poetry I've read doesn't really have a strong sense of narrative.

I'd look more into Japanese symbolist poetry but I don't speak the language and embarrassingly little of it has been translated.

I know
>Poetry
>Translation
Is a fair point, but I think reading a poem in its original language to get a sense of the phonetics and reading multiple translations is would be the next best thing to reading vanilla.

>>6227917
>Stop trying so hard.
>implying I'm the one trying to justify his existence on a thai shadow puppet wiki