Last night I was reading the book “Haiku Mind” by Patricia Donegan, a collection of 108 amazing and inspiring haiku poems. I came across the one below by the very famous and powerful, Basho, probably my favorite haiku poet. It is astonishing to me that given the news of the past 24 hours about Bin Laden, how much this haiku resonates as if it were written today, not in the 1600’s.
summer grasses
all that remains
of warriors’ dreams
BASHO MATSUO (1644-1694)
Timeless and dare I say even better than the Village People.
Savage Haiku 