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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Age Fresh Mountain Nature Spring Time World
Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Dreams Greatness Summer
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
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Existence Plant Rope Twisted
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Creation Life Master Poem Poet Time Writing
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Air Home Quite Sleep
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Oneself Solitude Sound Wind Winter
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
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
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves

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