Yosa Buson River Poems
- 1. Elegy To The Old Man Hokuju
You left in the morning, at evening my heart is in a
thousand pieces.
Why is it so far away?
... - 2. Hokku Poems In Four Seasons
Spring
The year's first poem done,
with smug self confidence
... - 3. Haiku
The winter river;
down it come floating
flowers offered to Buddha.
... - 4. Variations On 'the Short Night--'
Below are eleven Buson haiku
beginning with the phrase
'The short night--'
... - 5. Early Summer Rain
Early summer rain--
houses facing the river,
two of them.
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