Famous Issa Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Issa poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous issa poems. These examples illustrate what a famous issa poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Issa, Kobayashi
...His death poem:
A bath when you're born,
a bath when you die,
how stupid....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...A cuckoo sings
to me, to the mountain,
to me, to the mountain....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Blossoms at night,
and the faces of people
moved by music....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Children imitating cormorants
are even more wonderful
than cormorants....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Don't worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Even on the smallest islands,
they are tilling the fields,
skylarks singing....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Having slept, the cat gets up,
yawns, goes out
to make love....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Hey, sparrow!
out of the way,
Horse is coming....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...How much
are you enjying yourself,
tiger moth?...Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...I'm going out,
flies, so relax,
make love....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...In spring rain
a pretty girl
yawning....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Last time, I think,
I'll brush the flies
from my father's face....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Napped half the day;
no one
punished me!...Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Napping at midday
I hear the song of rice planters
and feel ashamed of myself....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...New Year's morning:
the ducks on the pond
quack and quack....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Not very anxious
to bloom,
my plum tree....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other....Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...That wren--
looking here, looking there.
You lose something?...Read more of this...
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Issa, Kobayashi
...Writing **** about new snow
for the rich
is not art....Read more of this...
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