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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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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Autumn Break Up End Leaving Myself Relationship Yourself
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Dreams Summer Warrior
When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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Clear Conscious Purity Realize Service Water Yourself
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
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Better Choice Leadership Life Original Poetry Reality Write
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Count Festival Soul Thinking
Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Animal Character Deep Face Reveal
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
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Awake Ice Night Sound Water
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Be Yourself Identity Imitation Myself Original
Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Break Deep Frog Resonate Silence Water
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening

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