Haiku

初しぐれ猿も小蓑をほしげ也 - 松尾芭蕉

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What nonsense about
Afterlife, eternity
Here heaven is brief

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I stop on the night
road: in the car’s headlights an
owl, unmoving, stares

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The moon that followed
Every step of our way home
Now in the windrow

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Late summer evening
sheep cry for their lambs, rooks fly
home across the sky

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We turned the corner
in the lane and from the hill
saw this perfect moon

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How strong are childhood
memories - as, with age, life’s
illusion wears thin!

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August sun lights up
fine seeded heads of grasses
cerulean blue

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Summer’s hot midday
A willow by the river
Sways in its own shade

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A buzzard circles
Sees me, a thin biped ape
Walking in the heat

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As a child playing
on a warm summer’s evening
late into the dark

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Unruly brambles
in the hedge, modest hornbeams
stand where they were set

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Walking the narrow
Dark lane, sudden flutter of
Wings across your path

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Across the long grass
of the wide summer field you
see a deer’s still face

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A summer evening
Quiet sounds of birds, dogs, cars
Day slips towards dusk

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A sliver of moon
Downhill chill of evening air
Countryside all quiet

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Summer’s climactic
High clouds, yellow corn ripens
Heavy midday heat

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Corner of a field
in the shade of trees with views
to the farthest hills

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Windblown thistledown -
the lighthearted children of
hardhearted parents

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Supercilious,
atop a dead elm, a crow
surveys the summer