Chiyo-Ni Haiku

My hunter of dragonflies

How far would he have strayed today?

Fukuda Chiyo-Ni

Buson Haiku

On the great bell

Stops a butterfly

And sleeps.

Buson

Basho Haiku

That soon they will die

Is unknown

To the chirping cicadas.

Basho

 

Shiki

Without my journey

And without the spring,

I would have missed this dawn.

Shiki

scroll

blue lake soars white mountains 

range of annapurna

touch blue sky

majestic sense

foreigners trek, camp, parasail, river raft nature

they pass like seasons 

 

new Tibetan friends 

escaped in 1959

live in refugee camps 

work hard raise families weave futures

lhasa return only a dream

a famous haiku 

on a scroll

in mountain museum

is longer than climbing a peak