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