Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
MATSUO BASHOBreaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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