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Offline Nichi

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Haiku
« on: October 29, 2010, 12:54:00 PM »
to fully explore
     a rustic rose
          the frantic bee disappears


Gabriel Rosenstock
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2010, 01:08:27 PM »
Buddha grants me
a few more days
I do the washing


Ozaki Hosai
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2010, 01:11:22 PM »
Where there are humans
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.

~Kobayashi Issa
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2010, 01:12:54 PM »
Nothing in the cry
    of cicadas suggests they
are about to die
 

~Basho
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2010, 01:16:00 PM »
barn's burnt down;
now I can see
the moon

~ Masahide
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2010, 01:19:17 PM »
All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes


~Kobayashi Issa
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2010, 01:21:43 PM »
forgiving each other
with only a look --
wisteria in the rain

~Mitsu Suzuki
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2010, 12:30:31 PM »
A mind that finds freedom
is at home
wherever it ventures or roams
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2010, 05:47:06 AM »
A mind that finds freedom
is at home
where ducks dream
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2010, 12:53:05 AM »
Dreams mix with perceptions
Perceptions are playgames
The mind is the mind
whether duck or man
but ducks can't rhyme
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2010, 07:07:52 PM »
Haiku's don't rhyme
but they do like an unexpected twist in the last line
and a 'cutting' word
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2010, 06:00:27 PM »
The world of dew
 is the world of dew,
 And yet, and yet –


~Kobayashi Issa~

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2010, 06:07:25 PM »
Crow's
abandoned nest,
a plum tree.


Matsuo Basho
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2010, 06:11:50 PM »
writing its story
     on the strand --
          a severed branch


~Gabriel Rosenstock
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2010, 06:17:49 PM »
necklace of bone …
ants have finished
with the snake

~Margaret Manson 
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