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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.

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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Animal Butterfly Togetherness
For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Flower Food Love Poverty Togetherness
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
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
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Dreams Greatness Summer
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Carry Enlightenment Water Wood
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Forget Inspirational Learning Rule
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Knowledge Nature Tree Wisdom
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Journey Path Seek Wisdom
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
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring

For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.

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