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Masaoka Shiki's Poetry, by written

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  • in the coolness
    in the coolness
    of the empty sixth-month sky…
    6 lines
  • looking down I see
    looking down I see,
    cool in the moonlight,
    3 lines
  • how much longer
    how much longer
    is my life?
    2 lines, 1 comment
  • Namu Daishi
    Namu Daishi
    Ishite no tera ya
    3 lines
  • the tree cut
    ki o tsumite
    yo no akeyasuki
    7 lines
  • Winter moonlight
        Winter moonlight;
    The shadow of the stone pagoda,
    2 lines
  • 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
  • Thawed out pond
    Thawed out pond.
    A shrimp moves
    3 lines
  • Haiku 01
    In the coolness
    of the empty sixth-month sky...
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • green in the field
    green in the field
    was pounded into
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • For love and for hate
    For love and for hate
    I swat a fly and offer it
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • One canary escaped
    One canary escaped:
    the spring day
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • A Willow
    A willow;
    and two or three cows
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • Full sail
    Full sail, reefed sail
    how far do you go?
    3 lines
  • a cock crows
    a cock crows
    at the foot of the small Mt. Fuji
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • A light
    A light
    newly lit –
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • A hundred labourers
    A hundred labourers
    digging earth:
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • Moon and plum blossoms
    Moon and plum blossoms:
    night after night
    4 lines
  • Pain from coughing
    Pain from coughing
    the long night's lamp flame
    3 lines, 1 comment
  • a quart of phlegm
    a quart of phlegm-
    even gourd water
    6 lines, 3 comments
  • the gourd water
    the gourd water
    of the night before yesterday
    3 lines
  • 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
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