frogs

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in a splash
frog becomes water
water becomes frog

-from Failed Haiku, October 2018,
edited by Michael Rehling

wife returns from trip
I should be home sweeping
not visiting ponds

October 8, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: haikuTags: family, frogs, haiku, senryu 1 Comment

the pond’s frog hobbles
to social security
jumping days are done

June 1, 2018June 1, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: haikuTags: Basho, frogs, haiku, senryu, spring 1 Comment

frog jumps in the pond
frog becomes the water
water becomes the frog

summer day— splashes
about in a rice paddy
basho is the frog

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frogs ask why
I hang around their pond
getting splashed

alas, unemployed;
frogs splash in a pond
ah, but overjoyed!

六十六 (Revised)

bull frogs unperturbed
a bottle swigging poet
plunges in their pond

六十六

frogs and dragonflies
left no forwarding address
took the creek with them

eyes shut to beauty

in a sea of bright lotus

bullfrog sings the blues

frog crossing the road

sixteen wheeler coming down

what would Basho say?

March 14, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, SenryuTags: frogs, haiku, senryu

Underemployed,
Watching a frog splash around
And overjoyed!