amid his grave’s
blossoms I bow…
missing him ~Issa*

*cited: http://www.haikuguy.com
Tomorrow! – blooms then,
blossoms I await
on a rainy night.
~Fushiminomiya Sadafusa*

100 days…22nd day
*cited:
Haiku before Haiku
Trans: S Carter
In a light spring rain
a discarded letter blows
through a bamboo grove
~Issa*

100 days…12th day
*cited:
The Spring of my Life
Trans: S Hamill
My spring is just this:
a single bamboo shoot
a willow branch
~Issa*

*cited:
The Spring of My LIfe
Trans: S Hamill
the light of a candle
is transferred to another candle –
spring twilight
~Buson*

*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
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