pounding rice cakes

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)

The child sobs, / “Give it to me!” / The bright moon. – haiku by Kobayashi Issa

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 (haiku by Issa)

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