Tree frog, by aBowman

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Walden by haiku

 

Prof. Ian Marshall has extracted haiku from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden for his book Walden by haiku.

 

You can hear a 10-minute interview tonight on KUOW’s Living on Earth. You can listen online:

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=10-P13-00004&segmentID=8

The link includes a transcript.

 

Source: Marilyn Sandall

 

Old Pond – Matsushima, ah!

 

Basho writes about his visit to Matsushima in his haibun The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Matsushima is one of the most beautiful landscape in Japan. Just imagine: hundreds of islands covered with pine trees!

Upon seeing one of the most famous views in Japan, Basho composed the following haiku:

Matsushima, ah!

Aah, Matsushima, ah!

Matsushima, ah!

— Basho

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