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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.

Matsuo Basho

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
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
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Autumn Cold Feeling Lips Myself Talk Voice Wind
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Death Life Moments Poem
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Insect Old Pond Sing Winter
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
Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Animal Butterfly Togetherness
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
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
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer

Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.

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