even old men
open their eyes to New Year
cherry blossoms

Kim M. Russell, 19^th May 2019

Taikan Yokoyama, Spring Morning, 1939 – found on Japanese Objects

My response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #85 Photo-shopping Haiku (2) Cherry Blossom

For this weekend’s meditation we have another episode of the new feature: ‘Photo-Shopping Haiku’, in which we tweak or make a little change to a given haiku to make it a ‘better version of itself’. The given haiku (or is it a senryu?) is a tricky one:

even an old man
has New Year’s eyes…
cherry blossoms

Kobayashi Issa (Tr. David G. Lanoue)