I wish I were close
To you as the wet skirt of
A salt girl to her body.
I think of you always.
Akahito
The white chrysanthemum
Is disguised by the first frost.
If I wanted to pick one
# Yamabe No Akahito 
 A poet of the  Nara  period, Akahito lived between 700 and 736 AD. He composed much of his work while traveling extensively with  Emperor Shōmu . 

Poems from the Japanese