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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.

Matsuo Basho

Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
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
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Eat Fast Glory Morning Myself
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
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
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Awake Ice Night Sound Water
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Collection Rain River Water
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
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Pond Sound Water
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Accomplishment Deep Devotion Interest Yourself
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

Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.

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