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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

Matsuo Basho

For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Flower Food Love Poverty Togetherness
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Breathe Compose Dangerous Enemy Fall Hairs Mindset Tree Writing
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
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
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
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
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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Avoid Believe Break Desire Divine Human Myself Noise Silence Sound
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
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Age Fresh Mountain Nature Spring Time World
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Journey Path Seek Wisdom
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer

Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

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