New Year’s Day—
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average.
Tag Archives: Issa
#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
#476 – more Issa
A gate made all of twigs
with woven grass for hinges
for a lock …this snail
Hi! my little hut
Is newly thatched I see
blue morning glories
#466 – because I love Issa
As the great old trees
are marked for felling, the birds
build their new spring nests
A flowering plum
and a nightingale’s love song
he remains alone
#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”
#92 – famous summer haiku
beautiful lines
of green run through
the summer dishes
Tatsuko Hoshino
one of my favorite examples of “kitchen haiku”
A Summer Day
High noon
save for reed-sparrows, the river
makes no sound
Issa
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#68- famous summer haiku
The night was hot
Stripped to the waist the snail
Enjoyed the moonlight
Issa
Summer~night insects
Falling burnt and dead …upon
My poem’s paper
Shiki
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#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 🙂
#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.
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