On and on I travel;
Though I fall and die, let it be
In fields of clover.
~Basho*
library day
Within The Narrow Road to Oku, Basho shares his journey through prose as well as haiku… which seems to me to fit this week’s photo challenge: On the Way
*cited:
The Narrow Road to Oku
Trans: D Keene
I cannot speak of
Yudono, but see how wet
My sleeve is with tears.
~Basho*
*cited:
The Narrow Road to Oku
Trans: D Keene
no one home
fallen pine needles
scattered at the door
~Ryokan
This week’s photo challenge: Broken
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K Tanahashi
Day by day, day by day, and day by day,
quietly in the company of children I live.
In my sleeves, tiny embroidered balls, two or three.
Useless, intoxicated, in this peaceful spring.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K Tanahashi
on a light breeze,
the heavy scent of blossoms
at morning
~Mitsuhiro*
*cited:
Haiku before Haiku
S Carter
lapping up the
fragrance of immeasurable bliss—
the flavor of bliss
~Tagami Kikusha-ni
the colors of the flowers fade
as the long rain falls,
as lost in thought,
I grow older
~Ono No Komachi*
cited:
Women Poets of Japan
K Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi
springtime rain,
almost dark, and yet
today still lingers.
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa
The light of the candle
is transferred to another candle–
spring twilight.
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa
summer mountain–
a world
of flowerless vines
~Issa*
75mm f/7.1 1/30 sec ISO 100
*cited:
Sweet and sad
like love overwhelmed
with long sighs,
out of the depths of the willow
little by little
the moon appears.
~Tosano Akiko*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
I can no longer tell dream from reality.
Into what world shall I awake
from this bewildering dream?
~Akazome Emon (?-1027)*
solitary evergreen
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
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