Issa Poems - Poems about Issa

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU XII These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops: flashes of light briefly illuminating the void. —Ouchi Yoa......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU XI These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Above the garden the camellia tree blossoms whitely... —Uejima Onitsura, loose translation by Michae......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU X These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Forbearing the night with its growing brilliance: the summer moon. —Tsukioka Yooshi (1839-1892) , lo......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Since I was born, I must die, and so … —Kisei (1688-1764) , loose translation/interpretation of ......Read the rest...

...Are you the butterfly while in my dreams I flit after Soshi? —Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch It's not at all anxious to bloom, the plum tree at my gate. —Kobayash......Read the rest...

...Haiku Translations I As the monks sip their morning tea, chrysanthemums quietly blossom. —Matsuo Basho, loose translation by Michael R. Burch The fragrance of plum blossoms on a foggy path: ......Read the rest...

...*Image of Opening by Pixabay. "Never forget: we walk in hell, gazing at flowers." by, Kobayashi Issa Transcendence Into the dawn, one yearns to be normal, A delicate breath of p......Read the rest...

...Kobayashi Issa a Japanese poet perhaps the best..and yet childlike& sometime zany but always haiku crazy......Read the rest...

...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...

...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...

...I-nvisible S-ickness S-ilently A-ttacks M-ankind A-s R-abid I-nfection E-mploys L-ethal P-andemic A-pplying J-eopardy's E-eriness Topic: Birthday of Issa Mariel A. Paje (April 28)......Read the rest...

...Surprise summer storm wingers nestle patiently--- my screen door Issa......Read the rest...

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

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

...Petals I amass with such tenderness prick me to the quick. ? Kobayashi Issa, loose translation by Michael R. Burch This world of dew is a world of dew indeed; and yet ... ? Kobayashi Issa, ......Read the rest...