More favorite Haiku

 

 Many of these from Kazuko M. @EstherHawdon on Twitter, including the picture above

I must go there today --

Tomorrow the plum blossoms

Will scatter.

by Ryokan (Tr. John Stevens)

The winds gives me

Enough fallen leaves

To make a fire

(Tr. John Stevens)

The moon rises

A flower blooming

Before my eyes

by Santoka  

 

"spring rain -- all things on earth become beautiful" Chiyo-ni

 

"sparrow after sparrow comes to this plum branch" Mikio Inoue 

 

"it's nothing only the sky is so beautiful" Mikio Inoue 

 

"The snow of yesterday That fell like cherry blossoms Is water once again" Gozan 

 

"Even in Kanazawa watching snow falling I long for Kanazawa" 

"this world

is full of needles and thorns...

yet lotus blooms..."    

           ― Issa Kobayashi (tr. Gabi Greve)

"On Hydrangeas dew drops gather the morning sun" Chiyo-ni