Night Train Poem by Hiroshi Satow

It's just left the station
It's now running
The light inside is shining
A variety of passengers can be seen still awake
Beautifully in a dim light of the train
As if among the stars in the sky
In beautiful silence



Translation of a poem by Motomaro Senge. Motomaro Senge(1888-1948) is a Japanese poet. He was a member of the Shirakaba ("White Birch") literary circle. He was a humanist, optimist, and prolific. I think he is good at short poems like this one above, using ordinary language, depicting ordinary things.