My old body:
a drop of dew grown
heavy at the leaf tip.
~Kiba
dew
scattered
Unable to sleep,
I gaze at the flowers of the bush clover,
as the dew forms on them from the long night,
till suddenly before dawn
they are scattered by the wind.
~Ise Tayu (K Rexroth & I Atsumi, The Burning Heart)
a drop of dew
My old body:
a drop of dew grown
heavy at the leaf tip.
~Kiba
snowy white dew
snowy white dew–and
above the potato fields,
the River of Heaven
~Issa*
100 days 14th day
*cited:
The Spring of My Life
Trans: S Hamill
passing through
passing through the world
indeed this is just
a shelter from the shower.
~Iio Sogi*
*cited:
The Classic Tradition of Haiku
Ed. F Bowers
after spring’s rain
I am a drop of dew
Hanging from a leaf
Yet, I am not unrestful
For on this branch I
seem to have existed
~Izumi Shikibu
a meditative journey 
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