Five Haiku

With clear melting dew,
I’d try to wash away the dust
of this floating world

Drawing purifying 
water—like the monks’ footsteps,
so clear and so cool

Buried under moss
and ivy leaves, but from within
the tomb, a faint prayer

In the sea-surf edge
mingling with
bright small shells ..
bush-clover petals

Mountain-rose petals
falling, falling,
falling now ...
waterfall music

Matsuo Basho  1644 - 1694