stopping to watch
the evening pines…
geese flying north
– #Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Behind me
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behind me–
it’s become a night
of wild geese!
– #Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
Rice dumpling in bamboo grass
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rice dumpling in bamboo grass–
skillfully the cat
unwraps it
– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
Pretending to watch
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pretending to watch
the harvest moon…
rice field-gazing
– #Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
Aware of the leeches
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aware of the leeches
they enter…
marshy rice field
– #Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
Geese at my gate
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geese at my gate
cry all you like…
no rice
– #Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
The moon’s out
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the moon’ out!
in the gate’s rice field
polite geese
– #Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
Departing geese
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departing geese
what are you
gabbing about?
– #Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
Your fly is open
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Table manners are important, even amongs frogs.
Quitting time
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