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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Animal Butterfly Togetherness
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Knowledge Nature Tree Wisdom
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Existence Plant Rope Twisted
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Animal Call Darkness Sea White Wild
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Eat Fast Glory Morning Myself
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Dreams Summer Warrior
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Autumn Life Night Thinking Yourself
Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Dreams Greatness Summer
For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Flower Food Love Poverty Togetherness
The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Empty Intimate Relationship Unique Universe
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Flower Pain See True World
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Count Festival Soul Thinking
Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Deep Enough Gide Leaving Object Subject Yourself
The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Art Change One Liner Universe
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
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
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Live Nature Ourselves Tree
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Dark Expectation Old Sleep Water
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Fruit Imitation Myself
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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