Why so scrawny, cat?
Starving for fat fish or mice...
Or backyard love?

Matsuo Bashō

Tags: cats haiku desire

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Describe plum-blossoms?
Better than my verses...white
Wordless Butterflies

Matsuo Bashō

Tags: beauty haiku plum-blossoms

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Hi! My little hut
Is newly-thatched I see...
Blue morning-glories

Kobayashi Issa

Tags: beauty haiku morning-glories

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April's air stirs in
Willow-leaves...a butterfly
Floats and balances

Matsuo Bashō

Tags: haiku spring

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Don't touch my plumtree!
Said my friend and saying so...
Broke the branch for me

Matsuo Bashō

Tags: haiku generosity

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Twilight whippoorwill...
Whistle on, sweet deepener
Of dark loneliness

Matsuo Bashō

Tags: loneliness haiku whippoorwill

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Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel...
Sleeping our noons away

Matsuo Bashō

Tags: moon haiku contemplation

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Mountain-rose petals
Falling, falling, falling now...
Waterfall music

Matsuo Bashō

Tags: haiku nature-s-music

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Amorous cat, alas
You too must yowl with your love...
or even worse, without!

Matsuo Bashō

Tags: love haiku

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Giddy grasshopper
Take care...do not leap and crush
These pearls of dewdrop

Kobayashi Issa

Tags: haiku nature-s-beauty

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