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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

Matsuo Basho

I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Be Yourself Identity Imitation Myself Original
Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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End Fan Myself Old Summer
The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Empty Intimate Relationship Unique Universe
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Pond Sound Water
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Goodness Hide Mystery Poem Reveal
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Companion Humanity Leaving Mindset Mountain Universe Wisdom Yourself
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Day Journey Myself Sea Wind
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 thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Dreams Summer Warrior
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Fruit Imitation Myself
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal
Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Break Deep Frog Resonate Silence Water
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World

A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

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