Poetry
Quotes
Matsuo Basho
- Fallen sick on a journey,
- In dreams I run wildly
- Over a withered moor.
- An old silent pond...
- A frog jumps into the pond,
- splash! Silence again.
- The first soft snow!
- Enough to bend the leaves
- Of the jonquil low.
- In the cicada's cry
- No sign can foretell
- How soon it must die.
- No one travels
- Along this way but I,
- This autumn evening.
- In all the rains of May
- there is one thing not hidden -
- the bridge at Seta Bay.
- The years first day
- thoughts and loneliness;
- the autumn dusk is here.
- Clouds appear
- and bring to men a chance to rest
- from looking at the moon.
- Harvest moon:
- around the pond I wander
- and the night is gone.
- Poverty's child -
- he starts to grind the rice,
- and gazes at the moon.
- No blossoms and no moon,
- and he is drinking sake
- all alone!
- Won't you come and see
- loneliness? Just one leaf
- from the kiri tree.
- Temple bells die out.
- The fragrant blossoms remain.
- A perfect evening!
