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Zen Death Haiku Viii

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Had I not known I was already dead I might have mourned my own passing. —Ota Dokan, loose transla......Read the rest...

Categories: hideyoshi, age, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Haiku

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? ......Read the rest...

Categories: hideyoshi, age, art, autumn, bereavement,
Form: Haiku

Zen Death Haiku Ii

...Today, catching sight of the mallards crying over Lake Iware: Must I too vanish into the clouds? —Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch This world— to what may we compare it? To autum......Read the rest...

Categories: hideyoshi, death, imagery, life, nature,
Form: Haiku

Paper Crane

...Atrocious Nobugana will he kill the cuckoo? You, spring rains, sing at eaves, princess heartsick leaves! Nobunaga-evil-minded will kill the cuckoo. Who knows? Maybe a geisha will dabble his heart w......Read the rest...

Categories: hideyoshi, inspirational,
Form: Lyric