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Category: Bashō Matsuo

ChrysanthemumSilence – monk Sips his morning tea.

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Why so scrawny, cat?Starving for fat fish or mice…Or backyard love?

cats, desire, haiku

Twilight whippoorwill…Whistle on, sweet deepenerOf dark loneliness

haiku, loneliness, whippoorwill

Had I crossed the passSupported by a stick,I would have spared myselfThe fall from the horse.

basho, fall, horse, travel

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

home, inspirational, life, travel

The journey itself is my home.

If I had the knackI’d sing likeCherry flakes falling

basho, haiku, song

Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel…Sleeping our noons away

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At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless.

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Here is a greedy man who keeps to himselfThe beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

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Describe plum-blossoms?Better than my verses…whiteWordless Butterflies

beauty, haiku, plum-blossoms

When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

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