Kobayashi Issa Poems
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Kobayashi Issa
That pretty girl--
munching and rustling
the wrapped-up rice cake....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
Under my house
an inchworm
measuring the joists....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
Not knowing
it's a tub they're in
the fish cooling at the gate....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
The crow
walks along there
as if it were tilling the field....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
Even on the smallest islands,
they are tilling the fields,
skylarks singing....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
That wren--
looking here, looking there.
You lose something?...Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
In this world
we walk on the roof of hell,
gazing at flowers....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
Children imitating cormorants
are even more wonderful
than cormorants....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
Don't worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
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...
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Kobayashi Issa
What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
The snow is melting
and the village is flooded
with children....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
Even with insects--
some can sing,
some can't....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
I'm going out,
flies, so relax,
make love....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
The moon tonight--
I even miss
her grumbling....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
It once happened
that a child was spared punishment
through earnest solicitation....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
No doubt about it,
the mountain cuckoo
is a crybaby....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
Last time, I think,
I'll brush the flies
from my father's face....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
Napping at midday
I hear the song of rice planters
and feel ashamed of myself....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
This moth saw brightness
in a woman's chamber--
burnt to a crisp....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
In these latter-day,
Degenerate times,
Cherry-blossoms everywhere!...Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
The toad! It looks like
it could belch
a cloud....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
Pissing in the snow
outside my door--
it makes a very straight hole....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
The pheasant cries
as if it just noticed
the mountain....Read more of this...
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Kobayashi Issa
How much
are you enjying yourself,
tiger moth?...Read more of this...