Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Spring

Today I have decided to try something that I didn't mention in the introduction: finding a variety of poems for just one thing. With spring approaching, I have decided to collect various poems about said season, or ones that somehow remind me of spring (and to make it more interesting, I have decided to get only haikus). Anyway, here are the poems:

Yes, spring has come
This morning a nameless hill
Is shrouded in mist
-Basho   (This poem is only the interpretation of one translator, as the original is in Japanese)



My spring is just this:
A single bamboo shoot,
A willow branch
-Issa       (This, too, is translated)

Fresh young leaves
The sound of a waterfall
Both far and near
-Buson   (More translation)

Morning mist speaks of
Life hidden beneath dark soil
Awaiting first rain
-Anonymous