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
The child sobs,
“Give it to me!”
The bright moon.
-haiku by Kobayashi Issa
(from: Haiku, R.H. Blythe, Hokuseido Press, 1984, paperback 2nd printing, p. 942)
Haiku-comic by Old Pond Comics.
spring rain –
a child gives a dance lesson
to the cat
-– A haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Old Pond Comics