Rain

A poem in Vietnamese by Trần Duy TrungTranslator: Nguyễn Thị Phương TrâmPhotography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm The Old Quarter, Hanoi, Vietnam the …

Rain

Bashō One Out

The Twisting Tail

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Matsuo Basho

watchful summer child
glass-eyed, confronts rippling heat
on the horizon


from trunk to fountain
showering elephants spout
a water feature


tree-lined parks capture
friends at play until barks end
at the dog shelter


Haiku began in thirteenth-century Japan as the opening phrase of renga. Haiku broke away from renga in the sixteenth century and was mastered a century later by Matsuo Basho, who wrote this classic haiku: An old pond.


lush high cliffed coastline
fearless against crashing waves
feeds the cautious sheep


written in winter
a bored, sleepy cat ignores
the tale of the pen


pure white aurora
ribbons of the northern sky
lost in a snowstorm


The Old Pond

Old pond…
a frog jumps in
water’s sound

古池や 蛙飛び込む 水の音

Matsuo Bashō


Theme:
Haiku

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