Dawn–
swimming in the shallows.Translated by Robert Hass
Poems,Quotations and Poetry of Well Known Poets
Poems,Quotations and Poetry of Well Known Poets
Spring
with smug self confidencea haikai poet.Longer has become the daytime;a pheasant is flutteringdown onto the bridge.Yearning for the BygonesLengthening days,accumulating, and recallingthe days of distant past.Slowly passing days,with an echo heard here in acorner of Kyoto.The white elbowof a priest,…
Blow of an ax,
the winter woods.Translated by Robert Hass
Early summer rain–
two of them.Translated by Robert Hass
Lighting one candle
spring evening.Translated by Robert Hass
Before the white chrysanthemum
a moment.Translated by Robert Hass
A bat flits
above the plum blossoms.Translated by Robert Hass
Buying leeks
under the bare trees.Translated by Robert Hass
Calligraphy of geese
the moon seals it.Translated by Robert Hass
Listening to the moon,
in a field of ripe rice.Translated by Robert Hass
Not quite dark yet
above the withered fields.Translated by Robert Hass
Blown from the west,
in the east.Translated by Robert Hass
My arm for a pillow,
under the hazy moon.Translated by Robert Hass
Evening wind:
the heron’s legs.Translated by Robert Hass
Harvest moon–
he was digging potatoes.Translated by Robert Hass
You left in the morning, at evening my heart is in a
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…
Old well,
dark sound.Translated by Robert Hass
He’s on the porch,
how hot it is!Translated by Robert Hass
His Holiness the Abbot
in the withered fields.Translated by Robert Hass
Sparrow singing–
open.Translated by Robert Hass