Prayer

It started out as a simple haiku poem, but it seemed so plain all by itself.  So I had this idea of doing a watercolor with the Japanese translation of the poem along one side, as you see here.  The trouble was, I didn't speak Japanese, and I didn't know anyone who did.  So, I started learning the language, and I found myself a Japanese pen-pal who writes poetry, to help me with the translation.  Below is the finished result.  The romanized Japanese is as follows:

We weren't able to preserve both the meter and the meaning, so I just settled on preserving the meaning.

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