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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.

Matsuo Basho

Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Deep Instrument One Liner
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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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Be Yourself Identity Imitation Myself Original
The journey itself is my home.
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Home Journey Myself
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Better Choice Leadership Life Original Poetry Reality Write
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
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
The 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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Age Deep Destiny Forever Home Journey Life Moon Old Sun Time Travel
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Companion Humanity Leaving Mindset Mountain Universe Wisdom Yourself
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Journey Path Seek Wisdom
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Break Deep Frog Resonate Silence Water

First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.

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