Book: The Essential Haiku

• A bat flits

  A bat flits
  in moonlight

  3 lines, 2 comments
• Before the white chrysanthemum

  Before the white chrysanthemum
  the scissors hesitate

  4 lines, 4 comments
• Blow of an ax

  Blow of an ax,
  pine scent,

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Ploughing the land

  Ploughing the land--
  not even a bird singing

  5 lines
• Blown from the west

  Blown from the west,
  fallen leaves gather

  3 lines
• The willow leaves fallen

  The willow leaves fallen,
  the spring gone dry,

  4 lines
• Buying leeks

  Buying leeks
  and walking home

  4 lines
• The end of spring

  The end of spring--
  the poet is brooding

  4 lines
• Calligraphy of geese

  Calligraphy of geese
  against the sky—

  2 lines, 3 comments
• Not quite dark yet

  Not quite dark yet
  and the stars shining

  3 lines
• Coolness

  Coolness—
  the sound of the bell

  2 lines, 5 comments
• Straw sandal half sunk

  Straw sandal half sunk
  in an old pond

  4 lines
• Dawn

  Dawn--
  fish the cormorants haven't caught

  4 lines
• Variations on 'The short night--'

  Below are eleven Buson haiku
  beginning with the phrase

  51 lines
• Early summer rain

  Early summer rain--
  houses facing the river,

  3 lines
• Washing the hoe

  Washing the hoe--
  ripples on the water;

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Evening wind

  Evening wind:
  water laps

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Old well

  Old well,
  a fish leaps--

  4 lines
• Harvest moon

  Harvest moon--
  called at his house,

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Sparrow singing

  Sparrow singing--
  its tiny mouth

  5 lines
• He's on the porch

  He's on the porch,
  to escape the wife and kids--

  3 lines, 4 comments
• The behavior of the pigeon

  The behavior of the pigeon
  is beyond reproach,

  4 lines
• His Holiness the Abbot

  His Holiness the Abbot
  is shitting

  2 lines, 2 comments
• The old man

  The old man
  cutting barley--

  3 lines
• Lighting one candle

  Lighting one candle
  with another candle--

  5 lines
• The spring sea rising

  The spring sea rising
  and falling, rising

  3 lines
• Listening to the moon

  Listening to the moon,
  gazing at the croaking of frogs

  3 lines, 1 comment
• They end their flight

  They end their flight
  one by one---

  4 lines
• My arm for a pillow

  My arm for a pillow,
  I really like myself

  4 lines
• White blossoms of the pear

  White blossoms of the pear
  and a woman in moonlight

  3 lines, 1 comment

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