Showing posts with label Kobayashi Issa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kobayashi Issa. Show all posts

Monday, May 25, 2020

singing







On a branch
floating downriver,
a cricket singing.



Issa
 art by Seiko





 

Monday, April 13, 2020

on the death of his child







Dew Evaporates
And all our world
 is dew...so dear,
So fresh....so fleeting



~  Issa
  from Japanese Haiku
 translation by Peter Beilenson
 
 
 
 




Sunday, June 15, 2014

reflected





Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye -
mountains.




Kobayashi Issa
(1763-1828)
from Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter
translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto