On Love and Barley by Matsuo Basho

Author:Matsuo Basho
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2000-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

19

Over skylark’s song

Noh cry

of pheasant.

20

How terrible

the pheasant’s call –

snake-eater.

21

Hozo mountain-pass

soars

higher than the skylark.

22

Bush-warbler dots

the rice-ball

drying on the porch.

23

Bucking the oven

gap – cat

yowls in heat.

24

Now cat’s done

mewing, bedroom’s

touched by moonlight.

25

Do not forget the plum,

blooming

in the thicket.

26

Spring air –

woven moon

and plum scent.

27

Mountain path –

sun rising

through plum scent.

28

Another haiku?

Yet more cherry blossoms –

not my face.

29

Sleeping willow –

soul of

the nightingale.

30

Behind the virgins’

quarters,

one blossoming plum.

31

First cherry

budding

by peach blossoms.

32

Red plum blossoms:

where behind the

bead-screen’s love?

33

Pretending to drink

sake from my fan,

sprinkled with cherry petals.

34

If I’d the knack

I’d sing like

cherry flakes falling.

35

Striding ten, twelve

miles in search of

cherry wreaths – how glorious.

36

Under the cherry –

blossom soup,

blossom salad.

37

Reeling with sake

and cherry blossoms,

a sworded woman in haori.

38

Boozy on blossoms –

dark rice,

white sake.

39

Come out, bat –

birds, earth itself

hauled off by flowers.

40

Waterfall garlands –

tell

that to revellers.

41

Spraying in wind,

through blossoms,

waves of Lake Grebe.

42

Be careful where

you aim,

peaches of Fushimi.

43

Sparrows

in rape-field,

blossom-viewing.

44

Cold white azalea –

lone nun

under thatched roof.

45

Draining the sake

cask – behold,

a gallon flower-vase.

46

On my knees, hugging

roots, I grieve

for Priest Tando.

47

Taros sprouting

at the gate,

young creepers.

48

Search carefully –

in the hedge,

a shepherd’s purse.

49

Aged – eating

laver, my teeth

grind sand.

50

Cherry blossoms –

lights

of years past.

51

Squalls shake the Basho

tree – all

night my basin echoes rain.

52

On the dead limb

squats a crow –

autumn night.

53

Kiyotaki river –

pine needles wildfire

on the crest.

54

Parting,

straw-clutching

for support.

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