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Sudden Enlightenment after BUSON Yosa no

SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT

Cecity stumbled
stick through moonlight shaft tumbled
on me and laughed

7 March 1975 revised 28 December 2008 robi03_0043_buso01_0001 PHT_JXX

after BUSON Yosa no 1716_1784

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SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT

A blind man groping
through a brilliant shaft of moonlight, stumbled
into me - and laughed!

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poem by Jonathan Robin
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Elegy to the Old Man Hokuju

You left in the morning, at evening my heart is in a
thousand pieces.
Why is it so far away?

Thinking of you, I go up on the hill and wander.
Around the hill, why is it such a sadness?

Dandelions yellow and shepherds-purse blooming white --
not anyone to look at them.

I hear a pheasant, calling and calling fervently.
Once a friend was there across the river, living.

Ghostly smoke rises and fades away with a west wind
strong in fields of small bamboo grasses and reedy fields.
Nowhere to leave for.

Once a friend was there across the river, living, but today
not even a bird sings a song.

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poem by Yosa Buson
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Blow of an ax

Blow of an ax,
pine scent,
the winter woods.

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poem by Yosa Buson
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Evening wind

Evening wind:
water laps
the heron's legs.

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poem by Yosa Buson
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The winter river;
down it come floating
flowers offered to Buddha.

haiku by Yosa Buson
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Light Of The Moon

light of the moon
moves west - flowers' shadows
creep eastward

poem by Yosa Buson
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Old well

Old well,
a fish leaps--
dark sound.

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poem by Yosa Buson
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Sparrow singing

Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
open.

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poem by Yosa Buson
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Spring rain

Spring rain:
telling stories,
a straw coat and umbrella walk past

poem by Yosa Buson
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A bat flits

A bat flits
in moonlight
above the plum blossoms.

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poem by Yosa Buson
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