When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
MATSUO BASHOThe 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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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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