japan apartment
six mats of woven rice straw
enough for one life
Category: Japan
1586
sweet potato man
pushes his cart home
stops at McDonaldβs
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1581
late winter night chant
stone baked sweet potato man
just two hundred yen
π―π΅
1571
hiroshima tram
653 at ground zero
many times a day
1515
japanese children
making snow bodhisattvas
outside the temple
1464
snowing down in clumps
large as peony blossoms
old japanese print
1401
Kyoto apartment
three tatami mats
just me and Basho
1322
my poor earthen cups
next to onyx decanters
blush to be displayed
1273
the blind samurai
chops up 60 of my gang–
and now it’s my turn?
1254
kyushu’s regiments
cut to the same height
ranks of tall pines
1205
bamboo bangs on rock
swivels back empty
the water garden
674
in lilting Japanese
she bows to a caller
on the telephone
663
Basho once declared
that seventeen’s too many
for English haiku
(Note: Basho also remarked on adapting the Italian sonnet form to Japanese.)
658
spring constellations–
flowering cherry trees–
empty beer bottles
656
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645
doll’s festival!
but our girls are grown
their dolls won’t know them
(revision)
638
when and where
cherry blossoms bloom
Japan’s daily news
621
along winding streets
of little wooden houses
the honeywagon
620
by each tiny house
neatly tied packages
for scavengers
544
simple, earthen cup
her smile captured in that glaze
the snow remembers
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(Revised as per J Richards)
