pounding rice cakes
though there’s no child
to beg for them
- haiku by Kobayashi Issa (translated by David G. Lanoue), cartoon by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
pounding rice cakes
though there’s no child
to beg for them
three times ’round
the little shrine…
departing geese
– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, carton by Old Pond Comics
In the winter storm
The cat keeps on
Blinking its eyes
— Haiku by Yaso, translated by R.H. Blyth (from Haiku, ed. by Peter Washington), ill. Old Pond Comics
at my gate
the artless pigeon too
sings “It’s spring!”
– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Tr. David G. Lanoue, ill. Old Pond Comics