noontime summer sun
unforgiving as it burns
fat uneaten worms
#132-drought
Muggy summer night
Tardy fireworks bursting
Sadly no rain falls
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#131- surgery
hot summer morning
prayed to clouds for your health
driving to doctor
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#130 – Famous haiku to cool you down
staring delighted
even at walking horses
in new morning snow
Basho
midnight wanderer
walking through the snowy street
echoing dog-bark
Shiki
In that cold darkness
my horse stumbled suddenly
just outside the house
Buson
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#129- retreat
escaping the heat
the hottest day in decades
cool retreat upstairs
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#128- boardwalk
early spring sun sets
along the uneven boardwalk
evening ocean beckons
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#127- heat
oppressively hot
heat will curtail outdoor time
Northern July day
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#126 – cautious
mother bird curtails
curious babies ventures
in garden near cat
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#125- hunter
sitting by the shore
watching a spirited gull
ardently hunt crabs
Photo by Mary Rizzo
written for #haikuwordgame on Twitter – words (shore, spirit, ardent)
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#124- Issa, Issa, Issa
Orphan Sparrow
With one another
Let’s play; so come. O sparrow
Who has no mother,
The Cherry Blossom at Ueno
Under the branches
Of the cherry-trees in bloom
None are strangers there.
A Radish Worker (one of my favorites)
With the radish he
Pulls out, a radish-worker
Shows the road to me.
I hope you enjoy these haiku by Issa – I found them in a book by Kenneth Yasuda called “The Japanese Haiku”
Savage Haiku 