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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.

Matsuo Basho

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Accomplishment Deep Devotion Interest Yourself
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Count Festival Soul Thinking
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
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
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Age Fresh Mountain Nature Spring Time World
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Pond Sound Water
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
MATSUO BASHO

Creation Life Master Poem Poet Time Writing
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Fruit Imitation Myself
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Deep Instrument One Liner
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood

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