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Re: Haiku
« Reply #45 on: July 15, 2013, 03:21:26 PM »
   

loneliness


loneliness
lies within the listener--
a cuckoo's call

 
   
~Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703 - 1775)
English version by Patricia Donegan & Yoshie Ishibashi
Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master, Translated by Patricia Donegan / Translated by Yoshie Ishibashi


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Re: Haiku
« Reply #46 on: August 27, 2013, 04:04:20 AM »
 ;)  :)

« Last Edit: August 27, 2013, 04:05:52 AM by Nichi »
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #47 on: June 26, 2014, 09:15:16 AM »
a glimpse of god
     in the eyes of a cat
          following a moth

   
Gabriel Rosenstock
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #48 on: September 05, 2014, 10:17:36 AM »
With no under-robes,
bare butt exposed -
a gust of spring wind

- Buson

(Translated by Sam Hamill, from the book, 'The Poetry of Zen', Shambhala Library)



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Re: Haiku
« Reply #49 on: January 06, 2015, 07:30:02 PM »
under the ice
the cat's eyes follow...
crazy fish

Issa
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