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Masaoka Shiki's Poetry, by first line

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  • Haiku 01
    In the coolness
    of the empty sixth-month sky...
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • Haiku 02
    the tree cut,
    dawn breaks early
    3 lines, 8 comments
  • Haiku 03
    scatter layer
    by layer, eight-layered
    3 lines, 4 comments
  • Haiku 04
    at the full moon's
    rising, the silver-plumed
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • Haiku 05
    entangled with
    the scattering cherry blossoms—
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • Haiku 06
    wheat sowing—
    the mulberry trees
    3 lines, 1 comment
  • Haiku 07
    in the coolness
    gods and Buddhas
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • Haiku 08
    I turn my back
    on Buddha and face
    3 lines, 1 comment
  • Haiku 09
    the moon is cool—
    frogs' croaking
    3 lines, 1 comment
  • Haiku 10
    fanning out its tail
    in the spring breeze,
    3 lines, 1 comment
  • Haiku 11
    rice reaping—
    no smoke rising from
    3 lines, 1 comment
  • Haiku 12
    old garden—she empties
    a hot-water bottle
    3 lines, 1 comment
  • Haiku 13
    spring rain:
    browsing under an umbrella
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • Tanka 01
    curtains drawn,
    the emperor's love
    5 lines, 5 comments
  • Tanka 02
    the plaintain at the veranda's edge
    unfolds its coiled leaves,
    5 lines, 1 comment
  • Tanka 03
    The man
    I used to meet in the mirror
    5 lines, 11 comments
  • Tanka 04
    In the spring chill,
    as I slept with sword by pillow,
    5 lines, 1 comment
  • Tanka 05
    saw the country
    and returned—now deep at night
    5 lines, 5 comments
  • Tanka 06
    the bucket's water
    poured out and gone,
    5 lines, 2 comments
  • Tanka 07
    on the pine needles,
    each of the slender needles,
    5 lines, 2 comments
  • Tanka 08
    to every needle
    of the needled pine it clings—
    5 lines, 2 comments
  • Tanka 09
    two feet tall,
    the crimson-budded roses,
    5 lines, 1 comment
  • Tanka 10
    I do not know the day
    my pain will end yet
    5 lines, 9 comments
  • Tanka 11
    I remember plucking
    buds of bush clover
    5 lines, 1 comment
  • Tanka 12
    in memory of
    the spring now passing
    5 lines, 2 comments
  • green in the field
    green in the field
    was pounded into
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • Under the moonlight
    Under the moonlight, cuckoo cried as if it coughed up blood.
    The sad voice kept me waking up,
    3 lines, 3 comments
  • On how to sing
    On how to sing
    the frog school and the skylark school
    4 lines
  • A spring day
    A spring day
    A long line of footprints
    4 lines
  • Double cherry blossoms
    Double cherry blossoms
    Flutter in the wind
    4 lines
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