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Haiku 俳句 and other tales of our floating world 浮世. #haiku #poetry #ukiyo #Japan #Asia #photography #art #breathing
saw the country
and returned—now deep at night
I lie in bed and
fields of mustard flowers
bloom before my eyes
Masaoka Shiki | Sulav Shrestha
#tanka #Japan
Today’s begging is finished;
at the crossroads
I wander by the side of hachiman shrine talking with some children.
Last year, a foolish monk;
this year, no change!
Ryōkan Taigu
#poetry #Japan
was it the dark
we shared
or the candle
Susan Marie La Vallee (Bottle Rockets 25, 2011)
#haiku #3lines #poetry
In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.
Izumi Shikibu | Shima Seien
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
#waka #poetry #Japan
Her hair at twenty
Flowing long and black
Through the teeth of her comb
Oh beautiful spring
Extravagant spring!
Akiko Yosano | Hashiguchi Goyō
#Tanka #Japan
When no bell rings
What do the villagers do,
— Spring Nightfall
Matsuo Bashō | Takahashi Shotei
#haiku #spring #Japan
After washing and dressing,
she leans alone by the river tower,
a thousand sails pass by, but none are his.
Wen Tingyun | Zhang Daqian
Excerpt from "Dreaming of the South", translation: Witter Bynner
#poetry #China #TangDynasty
John Launois | Geiko in Kyōto
#Japan #photography
Spring rain falls gently,
A fishmonger’s lantern glows
Through the misty dusk.
Yosa Buson | Kōhō Shōda
#haiku #spring #Japan
smooth cemetery stone
I run my fingers
across her lifetime
Jay Friedenberg | Henk Binnendijk
2017 Peggy Willis Lyles Award Winner #haiku #poetry
Ice on the pond
the skate marks
like thoughts left behind
Bruce Ross #haiku #winter #poetry
first storm alone
without thinking
I call out his name
Pat Davis
#haiku #3lines #poetry
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revealing
my true age
hotel mirror
Julie Bloss Kelsey | Francis James Mortimer
#haiku #poetry
one by one
even the cats come home
cold night
Issa Kobayashi | Shoda Koho
Translation: D. Lanoue
#haiku #Japan
The snake and I
Live together in harmony
In the light of the moon
Kobayashi Issa | Dang Hiep
Translation: Robert Hass
#haiku #Japan #LunarNewYear
Strange night
crouching fox
stalking a cool melon
Matsuo Bashō | Shoson Ohara
#haiku #Japan
I closed my eyes
And my father died
He could not wait
Any longer
light snow—
a beignet’s sugar
stains my lap
published on Poetry Pea
#haiku #micropoetry #poetry
cold winter night
at times
the loneliness of three lines
#haiku #poetry
.
the police officer
questions the autistic child
and receives back
scribbles that mean nothing
in this world of ours
by M. Kei
#5lines #tankapoem #tanka
#TankaThursday police
#disability
Yoshida Toshi | Tokyo, 1938
#art #Japan
Winter moon —
the sound of wings
freezes too
Masaoka Shiki | Reiji Hiramatsu
Translation: Janine Beichman
#haiku #winter #Japan
On the frozen pond
a duck stands alone,
in the evening’s cold.
Masaoka Shiki | Utagawa Hiroshige
Translation: Janine Beichman
#haiku #winter #Japan
The winter river—
down it come floating
flowers offered to Buddha.
Yosa Buson | Kamisaka Sekka
#haiku #winter #Japan
Kyoto | Henri Cartier-Bresson
#blackandwhite #photography #Japan
after the bell,
within the silence:
within myself
Nick Virgilio | Chester Ong
#haiku #poetry
Today's Feature at MyHaikuPond.com
pouring rain
the leaky roof
has its own song
Ravi Kiran
TINYWORDS, December 30th. 2024
Image: "Rain at Magome", Takahashi Hiroaki a.k.a. Takahashi Shōtei
Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-1979)
Near Yasaka
#japanese #woodblock
cleaning day blues
playing the dust off
the piano
#haiku #poetry #SenryuSunday #VSS365 #dust
