Posts Tagged ‘ haiku ’
Who needs Eternity? One day is enough.
All the long day —
Yet not long enough for the skylark,
Singing, singing.
Bashō (1644-1694) (translated by R. H. Blyth), in R. H. Blyth, Haiku, Volume 2: Spring, page 195.
Source: First Known When Lost: Days
Simply trust:
Do not also the petals flutter down,
Just like that?
Issa (translated by R. H. Blyth), in R. H. Blyth, Haiku, Volume 2: Spring (Hokuseido Press 1950), page 363.
Source: First Known When Lost
面倒な奴で結構磯巾着 津野利行
mendô na yatsu de kekkô isoginchaku
no problem
to be called nuisance
sea anemone
Toshiyuki Tsuno
translation by Fay Aoyagi
Source: Today’s Haiku (April 10, 2017) | Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
summer showers
a trail of paw prints
to the curled form
– madhuri
Source: Summer Showers | Bending moments
Image: Surimono Print – Bullfinch and Blossom – Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)
calling my own name
to hear what it sounds like
a dew drenched bullfinch
Paul Conneally
Asahi Shimbun April 7 2017
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201704070006.html
Alan Summers is an extraordinary haiku poet and teacher of the haiku and halibun forms. I return to his bright, imaginative and free-ranging voice again and again in his haiku book, “Does Fish-God Know?” I’m holding out for a collected volume of his haiku. One can dream . . . – Donna Fleischer
