even the cloudbursts

even the cloudbursts

hate it…

rice field by my gate

-– A haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Old Pond Comics

departing the facing mountain

departing the facing mountain

it comes this way…

little cloudburst

• haiku by Kobayashi Issa (translated by David G. Lanoue), cartoon by Jessica Tremblay

Cloudy

over wildflowers

soup steam wafts…

autumn festival

• A haiku by Kobayashi Issa (translated by David G. Lanoue), haiku-cartoon by Old Pond Comics

Drench

I am wet

by the rain

from that cloud

– Santoka

NaHaiWriMo – artwork

 

Frog print by Matsumoto Hoji. Dialogue inspired by Kobayashi Issa’s haiku:

The toad! It looks like
it could belch
a cloud

Kobayashi Issa

Old Pond Comics – Santoka haiku (Wet by the rain…)

 

A haiku by Santoka illustrated by Jessica Tremblay, the author of Old Pond Comics.

I am wet / by the rain  / from that cloud. — Santoka