Night of the full moon!
The weather in the north land
Is so uncertain.
~Basho*

rabbit ears pass
*cited:
The Narrow Road to Oku
Trans: D Keene
Night of the full moon!
The weather in the north land
Is so uncertain.
~Basho*

rabbit ears pass
*cited:
The Narrow Road to Oku
Trans: D Keene
the light of a candle
is transferred to another candle –
spring twilight
~Buson*

*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
White blooming plum tree –
since whose time has it been there
just outside the hedge?
~Buson*

*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
On my coming back,
how many pathways are there
through the spring grasses?
~Buson*

An image submitted in response to Paula’s b&w sunday
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
slowly passing days,
their echoing are heard
here in Kyoto
~Buson*

*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
Fragrance of incense
around a man while he naps –
a cloudy moon.
~Buson*

*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
half of it
it is flitting snowflakes…
spring rain
~Issa*


*cited:
haiku guy.com
On my coming back,
how many pathways are there
through the spring grasses?
~Buson*

*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
to my dinner tray
evening’s spring breeze
comes wafting
~Issa*

you are invited to wander through Michelle’s photo challenge: Dinnertime
*cited:
HaikuGuy.com
Ploughing a field!
Though the clouds did not move
they have gone.
~Buson*

*Cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
water of spring,
violets and white flowered reeds
moistened as it flows.
~Buson*

*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
spring is going,
we cannot know where to –
the anchored boat.
~Buson*

*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
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