Farewell Haiku Poems

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Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about birds, flowers, candles, life, death.

Naptime!
But my drowsiness is nixed
by busybody warblers.
—Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch

Carolers:
the sparrows...

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Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about winter, snow, snowball, home, fire, children, fun, frost, hail, fish, ice fishing.

The year’s first snowfall;
such happiness to be
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Matsuo Basho Haiku: English Translations of haiku about seasons, spring, rain, moon, flowers, blossoms, wind, river, etc.

Blame the rainy season
for my absence,
old friend Moon.
—Matsuo Basho,...

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      unsettling waves
 
      farewell... to his monument

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Shell, ancient mortal,
Cast from sparkling oceans, soul
For your lost love pined....

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summer winds softly
softly tear at the tissue
of sinking sunsets....

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september slips in
as asters wave in the breeze . . .
farewell to summer

october’s crisp days
mountains’ gold and crimson blaze . . .
my marveling gaze

november’s wind...

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palm trees sunsets
a week of charleston's beaches
sweet remembrance, farewell

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Flowers bloom again,
After the fire burned my heart,
Ash brings forth new life....

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deep vibrant velour
delicate intricacies
thorn pierced marooned bled...

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forty years transcend
evaporates in a trice
life suite an echo...

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In last stage of life 
flower nods it's heavy head 
anticipation...

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Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku

Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.

Having seen the moon
I can bid...

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