Kobayashi Issa Poems

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 His death poem:

 A bath when you're born,
 a bath when you die,
 how stupid....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 A cuckoo sings
to me, to the mountain,
 to me, to the mountain....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 Blossoms at night,
and the faces of people
moved by music....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 Children imitating cormorants
are even more wonderful
than cormorants....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 Don't worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 Even on the smallest islands,
they are tilling the fields,
skylarks singing....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 Having slept, the cat gets up,
yawns, goes out
to make love....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 Hey, sparrow!
out of the way,
 Horse is coming....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 How much
are you enjying yourself,
tiger moth?...Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 I'm going out,
flies, so relax,
make love....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 In spring rain
a pretty girl
 yawning....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 Last time, I think,
I'll brush the flies
from my father's face....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 Napped half the day;
no one 
punished me!...Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 Napping at midday
I hear the song of rice planters
and feel ashamed of myself....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 New Year's morning:
the ducks on the pond
quack and quack....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 Not very anxious
to bloom,
my plum tree....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 That wren--
looking here, looking there.
You lose something?...Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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 At my daughter's grave, thirty days
after her death:

 Windy fall--
 these are the scarlet flowers
 she liked to pick....Read more of this...

by Issa, Kobayashi

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