Archive for Amphibians and Reptiles
December 28, 2011 at 1:17 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Amphibians and Reptiles, Animals (Dobutsu), Buildings, Climate, Cold, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Weather, Wind, Winter
Bitter winter wind
Whips around the skyscrapers
A hunting dragon.
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September 17, 2011 at 3:38 am · Filed under Amphibians and Reptiles, Animals (Dobutsu), Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Pond, Seasons (Jiko), Summer, Time of Year, Water
Covered in duckweed
Just above the waterline
A pair of gilt eyes.
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December 13, 2010 at 11:22 pm · Filed under Amphibians and Reptiles, Animals (Dobutsu), Art and Literature, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Metahaiku, Poetry, Pond, Water and tagged: animal, Basho, frog, haiku, Metahaiku, pond, question, sound
When the frog jumped in
Basho’s venerable pond,
Which one made the sound?
My perhaps irreverent response to one of the most famous haiku ever written, the “frog pond” of Basho:
Old pond
A frog jumps in…
The sound of water.
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A Haiku Each Day 