Wednesday, January 2, 2013

dan smith & Joel Dias-Porter: Wednesday Haiku, #96

Print by Hokusai Katsushika




your old kimono
falls open revealing
Spring

dan smith




Art by Henri Meunier





A speck of white
floating in the evening's tea -
October moon.

Joel Dias-Porter



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Photo by Carl Highsmith




New Year's Day--
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average.
Issa
translated by Robert Hass





best,
Don 


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7 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

New year's day, I felt better than average!

Anonymous said...

I think just about everyone did

Conrad DiDiodato said...

New Year's Day--
everything's the same
'cept the rabbit
in my yard

Don, thanks for another great year of Eastern poetry!

Issa's Untidy Hut said...

Cheers, Charles, and happy new year!

Issa's Untidy Hut said...

Anonymous ... in the spirit of Issa, oh, my, yes.

Issa's Untidy Hut said...

Thanks so much, Conrad, for being there, the kind words, and for that rabbit in the yard, which, if here, would be lost in all this Pittsburgh snow.

Have a great new year.

Ed Baker said...

new year's day
digging in the compost pile
fig rats