Today, today too,
somehow getting by these days, still
living in a haze.
~Issa*
*cited:
The Springtime of My Life
S Hamill
poetry
for you who rarely visit…
for you who
rarely visit,
though you have already arrived,
may the early evening storm
not blow so hard!
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K Tanahashi
let’s go…view blossoms
Children,
let’s go to the mountain
to view violets.
If they scatter away tomorrow,
what can we do?
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K Tanahashi
blossom viewing
home from blossom viewing-
as I disrobe, many straps
cling to my body
Sugita Hisajo*
*cited:
Far Beyond the Field
Makoto Ueda
weekly photo challenge: from every angle
tires of…summer
for the man who says
he tires of his child
there are no flowers
~Basho*
*cited:
The Moon in the Pines
J Clements
walking out alone
black & white sunday: summertime
On the shins of thin legs
breezes touching the hairs —
time of summer clothes.
~Buson*
summer’s freedom
Visit Paula’s Lost in Translation for additional images of “summertime”
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
yearn to live…
summer’s fading
My own shadow
trodden on in the shallows-
cooling off
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
let me be…
How joyous and kind?
In my next life, let me be
a butterfly afield
~Issa*
*cited:
The Spring of My Life
Trans: S Hamill
summer’s silent gift
My home is quiet.
The cuckoo’s song is silenced
in my quiet home
~Issa*
*cited:
The Spring of My life
Trans: S. Hamill
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