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Matsuo Basho Haiku Blog
3d ago
It is beginning to snow. How delightful, unless you are a young monk, out on the road, standing in the snow, begging for a coat. It was the fourth year of the Genroku (1691-92), Basho was returning to Edo, saddened, I suspect, for he was not feeling well. Basho was 47 turning 48, and it ..read more
Matsuo Basho Haiku Blog
3d ago
To see in the dark One only has to Turn on the light . If it were only that easy, but it’s not, or maybe I’m trying too hard to find the switch. . I’d light the fire And you’d place the flowers In the vase and add water — Crosby Stills Nash Young ..read more
Matsuo Basho Haiku Blog
1w ago
Pressing Questions Can a computer compare the to a summer’s day? Can a computer choose between a cappuccino and a latte? I wonder. Artificial Intelligence Friend or foe, or Friendly foe, I wonder . AI Making mankind Superfluous? . cogito ergo summa computers that over think . is a computers capable of a random thought ..read more
Matsuo Basho Haiku Blog
1w ago
Winter, Genroku 5, 1693Matsuo Basho, age 49 years. At the fishmonger’s shop, is Matsuo Basho having a premonition of death? 塩鯛の歯 . ぐきも寒し . 魚の店Shio tai no . haguki mo samushi . uo no tana Salted Sea-bream,Baring their teeth, lie chilly,At the fish shop— Matsuo Bashō, 松尾芭蕉 At the Fish Shop At open air markets ..read more
Matsuo Basho Haiku Blog
2w ago
There is no reason, one supposes, Haiku can’t be written in Latin. Is there a reason why it should? Why it shouldn’t? Haiku in Latin,Is there a reason,Why it should? Haiku latine scripta, Estne causa, Quidni debet? Caeli sereni,Aqua lucet in rivo,Vox avium cantat. Serene skies,Sunlight shimmering in the stream,The sound of birds singing. This ..read more
Matsuo Basho Haiku Blog
2w ago
How sad To steal a shopping cart And toss it in the creek . People passing by In the park like Shopping carts in a store . Random thoughts Come and go As I walk to and fro . ‘Tis sad ‘tis true The shopping cart Is forever stuck ..read more
Matsuo Basho Haiku Blog
3w ago
Why Haiku? Home for the holidays,a walk in the woods,the topic — Haiku To be more precise, it was poetry not haiku. But the daughter meant haiku. It is short and to the point. Poetry can be be brief, but it can also be long, like Homer’s Iliad or the Odyssey. All good, but long ..read more
Matsuo Basho Haiku Blog
3w ago
Kanbun Era, year two, 1662Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa, as he was then known, not BashoThe a page to the samurai Tōdō Yoshitada, age 18,in Ueno, in the city of Iga, Mie prefecture 春や来し年や行きけん小晦日haru ya koshi toshi ya yukiken kotsugomori.Spring, is it here?The next to last day,of a new year?— Matsuo Basho, December, 1662 In the lunar ..read more
Matsuo Basho Haiku Blog
1M ago
Brrr, baby it’s cold outside. This is a good one. A good one for December, or for any month when the temperatures are freezing, the sky is gray, and the wind brisk. The oil is freezingThe lamplight thinning,is this my awakening, I wonder油こほりともし火細き寝覚哉Abura kōri / tomoshi-bi hosoki / nezame kana— Matsuo Basho, year unknown In ..read more
Matsuo Basho Haiku Blog
1M ago
A pew in the window In the sun Halfheartedly reading haiku . An eye on dust In the sunlight Suspended forever and ever . A shadow on the books on the shelf An alter ego, I wonder Eighth Day Books, Wichita, Kansas, a nice place to wait for Godot ..read more