Two from Michio Mado (trans. Takako Lento), via Poetry International:

I Wonder Why 

Sometimes I wonder
why it is not so. 

For ages and ages, for billions of years
we have been living in the sunlight
that is so clear
We have been breathing air
that is so clear
We have been drinking water
that is so clear 

Why then
haven’t we and
what we do come
to some clarity?

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Why all the Time 

The sun
The moon
The stars 

And
The rain
The wind
The rainbow
The echoes in the mountains 

Why are
Only the oldest
Always the newest?