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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