On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
MATSUO BASHO
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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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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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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