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Basho once declared
that seventeen’s too many
for English haiku

(Note: Basho also remarked on adapting the Italian sonnet form to Japanese.)

March 31, 2016April 1, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, poem, poems, poetryTags: Basho, English haiku, haiku, japan

662

red flags on buoys
little wooden boats
haul their nets in

 

 

 

(Revision)

March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, poem, poems, poetryTags: buoys, fishing, flags, haiku, net boats, nets

661

harvested by church bells
flurries of white
acacia

 

 

March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, poem, poems, poetry, senyruTags: acacia, bells, haiku, Issa

Athazagoraphobia

Athazagoraphobia

Source: Athazagoraphobia

March 31, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku

660

damsels and clowns
slivers of iridescence
the sunlit coral

 

 

March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, poem, poems, poetry, senryuTags: coral, fish, groupers, haiku, Hanama Bay, Hawaii, senryu