From the book Haiku Mind by Patricia Donegan
the vast night
now nothing left
but the fragrance
~Jorge Luis Bourges
clear stars
in the cold night
after the planes’ roar
~Hideni Ishibashi
(A woman’s experience of WWII)
Category Archives: famous
#55- famous haiku
Elegant singer
Would you further favor us
with a dance…o frog?
~Issa
On the low~tide beach
Everything we stoop to pick…
Moves in our fingers
~Chiyo-Ni
Happy Sunday – long weekend 🙂
#49 -Famous funny, beautiful haiku
I recently took a book out of the library called ” A Little Treasury of Haiku. ” It is a nice compilation of classic haiku poems, here are some I enjoyed, I hope you will as well.
Stupid hot melons
Rolling like fat idiots
Out from leafy shade!
~Kyora
Love it, too funny 🙂
In the twilight rain
These brilliant hued hibiscus…
A lovely sunset
~Basho
Filed under famous, haiku, micropoetry, poetry
#40 – some new to me favorites
Cherry-Blossom Time
In my old home
which I forsook, the cherries
are in bloom
Nature Note
A bush warbler comes:
all muddy are the feet he wipes
upon the blooming plums.
Issa (1762-1826) inserts humor and humanity into his haiku that I find very comforting and appealing.
I hope you enjoy these as much as I have, I found them in an ancient looking little book from the library called An Introduction to Haiku.
#34 -Clark Strand’s – Seeds From A Birch Tree
Husband and wife haiku – I love it 🙂
back from the mountains
a yellow handrail guides me
down the subway stairs
~Clark Strand
the weathervane points
at the buds of cherry trees
pink and opening
~Perdita Finn
#29 – 2 more famous haiku poems
from the book “Seeds from a Birch Tree” by Clark Strand:
Swim Beach at low tide
a fragment of blue sea glass
with the rocks & shells
~Susan Rudnick
( I love this one because I scour the beaches for sea glass and blue is very rare- I love how this captures the unsentimentality of haiku)
scattered in the shrubs
unceremoniously –
the poison ivy
-Dennis Davidson
I hope you enjoy these on your Friday, or Saturday or any day really –
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