Matsuo Basho World Poems

  • 1.
    Winter solitude--
    in a world of one color
    the sound of wind.

    ...
  • 2.
    Yo no naka wa kutte hako shite nete okite
    Sate sono ato wa shinuru bakari zo


    ...
  • 3.
    Yearâ??s end, all
    corners of this
    floating world, swept.

    ...
  • 4.
    Passing through the world
    Indeed this is just
    Sogi's rain shelter

    ...
  • 5.
    I like to wash,
    the dust of this world
    In the droplets of dew.

    ...
Total 5 World Poems by Matsuo Basho

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