All I pick up / At the ebb-tide / Is alive! (haiku by Chiyo)

 

All I pick up

At the ebb-tide

Is alive!

 

— haiku by Chiyo,

from Haiku by R.H. Blyth (Hokuseido Press, 1984, paperback 2nd print, p. 796) ;

 

illustrated by Old Pond Comics

The summer moon / Is touched by the line / Of the fishing-rod. – Chiyo-ni

The summer moon

Is touched by the line

Of the fishing-rod.

– Chiyo-ni (in Haiku, R.H. Blyth, p. 681)

Haiku-comic by Old Pond Comics