black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.

Matsuo Basho

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
Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Bone Cold Deep Fragrance Nature Perfume World
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
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
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Deep Enough Gide Leaving Object Subject Yourself
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Pond Sound Water
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Autumn Disappear Growth Myself Old
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Flower Interest Tree
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Animal Call Darkness Sea White Wild

Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.

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