floating in spring pond
white cherry blossom petals
Buddha sits unmoved
Tag Archives: cherry blossom
#606- nocturnal gardens
by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, from the March 2013 feature story “Night Gardens”
Pink cherry blossoms
sway in nighttime spring breezes
at Kyoto shrine
Filed under haiku
#498- famous haiku- Basho, Buson, Issa
in the sea-surf edge
mingling with bright small shells
bush-clover petals
~Basho
my two plum trees are
so gracious…see, they flower
one now, one later
~Buson
in city fields
contemplating cherry trees
strangers are like friends
~Issa
#442 – Famous spring haiku
The spring night-
in a dawn of cherry blossoms
it ended
~Basho
Spring too, very soon!
They are setting the scene for it —
plum tree and moon
~Basho
Under the image of Buddha
All these spring flowers
Seem a little tiresome.
~Basho
#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 