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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.

Matsuo Basho

Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Collection Rain River Water
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Existence Plant Rope Twisted
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
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Flower Interest Tree
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
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
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
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
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
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Pond Sound Water
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View

Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.

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