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Haiku Translations by Michael R Burch

...Am I really this old,
so many ghosts
beckoning?
—Michael R. Burch

Sleepyheads!
I recite my haiku
to the inattentive lilies.
—Michael R. Burch

Stillness:
the sound of petals
drifting dow...

Haiku Translations III

...These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others. 

Am I really this old,
so many ghosts
beck...

Haiku Translations Ii

...Haiku Translations II

Illuminated by the harvest moon
smoke is caught creeping
across the water...
Hattori Ransetsu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Fanning its tail fla...

Clerihew Shiki

...Masaoka Shiki was self-taught
haiku was the form he saught
& from him many masterpieces sprung
sadly he died so young...

This World of Dew

...THIS WORLD OF DEW

This world? 
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last? 
...

Yosa Buson Translations

...Yosa Buson haiku translations

On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hard to describe:
this light sensation...

Ancient Haiku

...These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku. 

While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O...

3 Autumn Haiku Shiki Style

...just outside
my sadness
Geese fly south


the door knocks
in my dream
Wisteria blooms


secrets freeze briefly
in the night
my love seeks light


11/20/17...

Master Masaoka Shiki

...5-7-5
Tragedy striking
all the children are dying-
A master prevailed!


4-5-4
Tragedy strikes
Children are dying-
Masters prevail!




7/6/2017
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Corner Stones of Haiku

...In
a
quartet
of haijin
from haiku pillars-
Basho,Buson,Sissa,Shiki...

Moonless Night

...the silence
of the harvested field-
moonless night


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*1st in Shiki kukai October 2014,Kigo theme

© kash poet (kashinath karmakar)

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Christmas Night

...Christmas night-
                                             looking for that star
                                                 in every star





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Haiku 49

...rainy season 
	grief, white hydrangeas 
	hungry caterpillar



In part, The Haiku Society of America’s definition of a haiku reads, “Usually a haiku in English is written in three unrhymed lines of s...

Corner Stones

...In
a
quartet
of haijin
from haiku pillars-
Basho,Buson,Sissa,Shiki...

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