Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 水を見てゐて沢蟹を見失ふ　　対中いずみ mizu o miteite sawagani o miushinau             looking at water             I lose a sight             of a river crab                                                 Izumi Tainaka from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), August 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo ?

Originally posted on PHOENIX: Podul japonez – umbra pictorului printre nuferi Le pont japonais – l’ombre du peintre parmi les nénuphars Japanese bridge – among water lilies painter’s shadow Haiku : Virginia Popescu (Monet in his garden, 1905)

Originally posted on Harusame: water lily… the face I had before my birth Comment: a haiku with Zen tones in which the second ku is occupied by a variant of the following well-known kōan 公案: ‘What did your face look like before your parents were born?’ The answer to the question lies in overcoming every…

Originally posted on OwnShadow: Earth gives me a fright – all that spinning and falling through an endless height.

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Nakayama Shuko pioggia d’agosto — anche questa dolcezza presto svanisce August rain — also this sweetness soon fades away © A.M. In: http://chanokeburi.altervista.org/silloge-della-pioggia-destate-summer-rain-anthology/?fbclid=IwAR1uY2hbrDsCsXGIYk9lMM7hxxP5Cx_WQtJR7B8sg3iM6bO4RYCDNLrYOUM

Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . perfumed garden where bonnets and boaters strolled he waits for a “fix” ? ? ? ? .