Short Basho Poems
Short Basho Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Basho by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Basho by length and keyword.
newborn deer
life is fragile
it died
08/01/2022
Anne-Lise Andresen
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this wind
how it changes direction -
my fickle mind
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Basho Inspired Haiku Contest
© 8th January 2022
BEFORE AND AFTER
pink plum and rose red
the sky melts rich colors
bliss between extremes
Written on 1/8/2022
For: Basho Style Haiku
Sponsor: Damned I-Be
A haikuist was Matsuo Basho
his masterwork,Kasen *you know
He practiced this long poetic sequence
a 36 stanza poem recited in length
*https://www.jstor.org/stable/2718744
Life…liberty,
Happiness pursued—
Voting rights denied.
Raindrops falling,
free puddles forming;
fish swimming in a bowl
Checkmate;
a life’s pause—
the game goes on…
World's storm clouds unleashed
Wise owls rescue and protect -
New dawn awakens
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written 12 January 2022
HAIKU CONTEST inspired by
BASHO only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Damned I-Be
A HAIKU TANKA TRIBUTE TO BASHO
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Basho... his pond
a haiku classic... his frog
memories for some
the pond devoid
the only sounds... backfilling
fresh tears i cry
join me... we'll cry another
again a frog will make ripples
Sage meanders
Sage observes
Sage proclaims
World's storm clouds unleashed
Wise owls rescue and protect -
New dawn awakens
Healthy - maybe
Global - maybe
Forever - maybe
WHO knows?
Weather life, be happy, be content
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Some clues to my Basho-style haiku
13 January 2022
Basho wrote it like this...
in autumn moonlight
the worm digs so silently
into the chestnut
If I were Basho I might write it like this...
in the desert heat
coyotes scream so wildly
echo through the sage
both haiku - 5/7/5
(coyotes - pronounced ky-oats)
Matsuo Basho
My brother, it’d snowed so much
That the Sun had died.
Poems are vital
For a better Society
Du Fu is happy.
Su Shi is proud too
Yes, Poetry is important
For the Universe.
Copyright © December 2023, Hébert Logerie, all rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.
If I were to end it,
pull the cord and douse the cabin lights for good,
it would be here at the high bluff
salt tang in my hair blowing free to the lighthouse
the blue blue gem of the sea below
this is what I want, if I should ever choose to go
It does not mean I will
just that I might like it to be so
Such a Beautiful Place
BASHO
Three hundred years passed—
Basho's frog still goes kerplunk.
He's still much with us.
Three hundred years passed—
Basho's frog still goes kerplunk.
Can you hear him yet?
Three hundred years passed—
Basho's frog still jumps—
kerplunk.
Can't you hear him now?
Basho could hear it.
A frog, strangely eternal,
an old pond—kerplunk
Heart’s Love Speech
My girl (archaic)
has my raincoat.
And I...
Well, I (adverb)...
have never been so -
Happy (pronoun)
to sit outside,
pondside,
in the rain (verb).
Just me and (subordinating conjunction) Basho (pronoun) (archaic).
Drenched,
smiling (preposition)...
I’ve all but - “Yauoooosh!” (interjection) jumped in.
CONFINED
round and round it goes
looking for an entrance
goldfish
STUD
mare on heat
retired racehorse
not interested
JANUARY
a new beginning
as cold as it can be
thick sweaters
SHOCK
positive scarlet
negative chocolate
electrocution
LIFE
troubled living
in sickness not in health
worse disease worsened cure
A morning spell
freshly proposed
comes quietly in
yesterday's ambient air
pushes out of the screen
archaic puffs of stale
what meanders out
is the remnants of me
before the crisis
caught between
hope and despair
I take to daydreaming
alone
again
in my bed
Jan 12, 2022
Sponsor Damned I-Be
Contest Name HAIKU CONTEST inspired by BASHO
The most discussed Basho haiku How would you translate it?
Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto
- Basho
Literal Translation
Fu-ru (old) i-ke (pond) ya,
ka-wa-zu (frog) to-bi-ko-mu (jumping into)
mi-zu (water) no o-to (sound)
my two cents
old pond
leaping frog
splash! (alternatively ripples*)
*perhaps better from an imagist viewpoint!
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2019