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The journey itself is my home.

Matsuo Basho

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Flower Moon Nature See Thinking Yourself
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood
The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Art Change One Liner Universe
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Autumn Life Night Thinking Yourself
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Dreams Summer Warrior
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Age Deep Destiny Forever Home Journey Life Moon Old Sun Time Travel
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Dreams Greatness Summer
Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Dark Expectation Old Sleep Water

The journey itself is my home.

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