poetry

#haiku Moon quit and fled

Carpe Diem #659, Servant’s Day (Yabu-iri).

yabu- iri ya  mamori- bukuro o  wasure kusa

Apprentice’s holiday:
a good-luck amulet
forgotten in the grass
© Buson

farewell cherry blossoms,
the servants have abandoned me,
will you bloom again?
© Chèvrefeuille

a tear fell down
servant realized done in
the moon quit and fled

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#haiku Journey in dreaming

Carpe Diem #658, First Dream (Hatsuyume).

nanno sono jô hatsu yume mo naku karasu

you’ve wrecked
my year’s first dream!
cawing crow                          © Issa

fly like an eagle
as free as a bird in the sky
living my dream                     © Chèvrefeuille

journey in dreaming
experiencing cultures
live life close to life

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#haiku Balm for Soul'n Heart

Carpe Diem Special #129, Sogi’s 5th haiku.

Now that they end
There is no flower that can compare
With cherry blossoms         © Iio Sogi

Ah! those cherry blossoms
every where I look their beauty amazes me again –
finally spring is here          © Chèvrefeuille

enlightening words
like nature’s cherry blossoms
balm for soul’n heart

© Birgitta Rudenius

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Cherry blossom

#haiku Porridge

Carpe Diem #651, Picking Young Greens (wakanatsumi).

cool dawn –
an old Indian picking
young greens                © Narayanan Raghunathan

late at night
picking young greens in the kitchen garden –
the almost full moon               © Chèvrefeuille

 the seven sacred
early morning’s sunny greens
porridge will be served

©Birgitta Rudenius

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