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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Basho

I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Drop Spring Tree
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Bright Burn Moon One Liner
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Knowledge Learning Leaving Nature Wisdom Yourself
Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Dark Expectation Old Sleep Water
Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
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
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Autumn Evening
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
April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Balance Butterfly Leaves
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem

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