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1 " Dead my old fine hopesAnd dry my dreaming but still...Iris, blue each spring "
― Matsuo Bashō , Japanese Haiku (Japanese Haiku Series I)
2 " On the Death of his ChildDew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting "
3 " Hi! My little hutIs newly-thatched I see...Blue morning-glories "
4 " Describe plum-blossoms?Better than my verses...whiteWordless Butterflies "
5 " In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees...Strangers are like friends "
6 " Twilight whippoorwill...Whistle on, sweet deepenerOf dark loneliness "
7 " Why so scrawny, cat?Starving for fat fish or mice...Or backyard love? "
8 " Such a little childTo send to be a priestling...Icy poverty "
9 " Arise from sleep, old cat,And with great yawns and stretchings...Amble out for love "
10 " Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel...Sleeping our noons away "
11 " All Heaven and EarthFlowered white obliterate...Snow...unceasing snow "
12 " April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterflyFloats and balances "
13 " Mountain-rose petalsFalling, falling, falling now...Waterfall music "
14 " Giddy grasshopperTake care...do not leap and crushThese pearls of dewdrop "
15 " Ballet in the air...Twin butterflies until, twice whiteThey Meet, they mate "
16 " If you were silent Flight of herons on dark sky...Oh! Autumn snowflakes! "
17 " Seek on high bare trailsSky-reflecting violets...Mountain-top jewels "
18 " Old dark sleepy pool...Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash! "
19 " Come come! Come Out!From bogs old frogs command the darkand look...the stars "
20 " Standing still at dusk Listen . . . in far distances The song of froglings! "
