Haiku Home Poems

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
at...

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w~a~l~k~e~d searching for l - o - n - g 
lost in m#a#z#e of faceless  ÖÖcrowdÖÖ
will you take me home  /\
  ...

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same sky as years pass
planets in sync as always
with or without me...

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               bright blue Robin eggs
      ...

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When I write of “home”, 
it’s not them I’m aching from,
just the world outside.
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so, lit flight resting 
bird nest upon the crevice 
of the building set
~
 the eaves Covenant 
are gathered stored twigs leaves and.... 
 mud fashioned...

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A small-raised castle...
a below-ground grave-like nest:
ants' safe life-haven:-...

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no ups nor downs
in fact, home is best
no east nor west

Inspired by the lovely poetess Andrea Dietrich's poem: Over and Over and Over Again. 
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Waterlogged with life
washed up like castaways on
the shore of old age.
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Love

Forgotten home

Comes life

Hell

Home
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Carolina home
In the great Palmetto State
Place where I was born

Boy was free to roam
On a ninety-acre farm
Free from fear and harm

In dirt, sand or mud
We...

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Old men
sit in wheelchair
drool...

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Golden Gate
shining in sun
home again...

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home had expansion
would find it to be fashion
became big mansion

had ridden a horse
on property with golf course
poor game with remorse

shot well below par
had few drink...

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broken branches lead 
to secret home of insects 
hiding from the world...

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