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Lightning flash
what I thought were faces
are plumes of pampas grass.
Yosa Buson
Three examples of the haiku of Yosa Buson from the late 1700s are offered here:
A summer river being crossed
how pleasing
with sandals in my hands!
Light of the moon
Moves west, flowers' shadows
Creep eastward.
In the moonlight,
The color and scent of the wisteria
Seems far away.
Kobayaski Issa
Here are three haiku from Kobayashi Issa, a haiku master poet from the late 1700s
and early 1800s:
O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!
Trusting the Buddha, good and bad,
I bid farewell
To the departing year.
Everything I touch
with tenderness, alas,
pricks like a bramble.
Natsume Soseki
Natsume Soseki lived from 1867 - 1916. He was a novelist and master of the haiku.
Here are a couple of examples of his poems:
Over the wintry
forest, winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow.
Lily:
out of the water
out of itself - Nick Virgilio
ground squirrel
I hear crackling
Crunch, of todays new found day
And know it wont last
A cricket disturbed
the sleeping child; on the porch
a man smoked and smiled.
Remember, haiku is more than a type of poem; it is a way of looking at the very
nature of existence.