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A review by tymelgren
The Spring of My Life: And Selected Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
3.0
A few favorites:
The old dog listens
intently, as if to the
work songs of the worms
Pretending wisdom,
a man tells a woman all
about the eclipse
In the old temple,
even the snake has shed
his worldly skin
Mosquito larvae
are idle - like me today,
like me tomorrow
The cranes cry in vain
late into night: no blanket
can thaw this cold world
That fat toad looks like
he just burped a huge cloud
filling the sky
With each lightning flash,
each roll of the thunder, rice and
the world grow richer
The old dog listens
intently, as if to the
work songs of the worms
Pretending wisdom,
a man tells a woman all
about the eclipse
In the old temple,
even the snake has shed
his worldly skin
Mosquito larvae
are idle - like me today,
like me tomorrow
The cranes cry in vain
late into night: no blanket
can thaw this cold world
That fat toad looks like
he just burped a huge cloud
filling the sky
With each lightning flash,
each roll of the thunder, rice and
the world grow richer