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Autumn 2006, vol 4 no 3
RENKU
Twenty
Verses : Withered Crow
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miles from home
withered crow
under basho leaves
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Raffael
de Gruttola |
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swishing a paint
brush
to the day moon
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Kengo
Hotokebuchi |
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cold autumn stream
meanders down the mountain side
thousands of rounded pebbles
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Allen
LeVines |
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mounted crab specimen
in the school bag
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Fumiko
Kimura |
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in Iga country
they say skills of ninja
certainly inherited
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Yoshiko
Matsushima
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dance away!
light shimmering in the trees
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Yumiko
Matsuoka |
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rushing on to the
train
I cannot wait
for my weekend date
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Toyoe
Okabe |
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wearing his sweater
even though it's too big
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Raffael
de Gruttola |
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a shot of whisky
in the bar
named "Winter"
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Fumiko
Kimura |
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"No more war,"
the sea cries
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Yoshiko
Matsushima |
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on the frosted glass
I remember
my father's back
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Toyoe
Okabe |
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it's raining now
on the slag heap
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Kengo
Hotokebuchi |
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azure of hydrangea
dissolving
into pale pink
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Yoshiko
Matsushima
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a gold bug is coming
in the needle woman's dream
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Kengo
Hotokebuchi |
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under the moon
a visitor's shadow
and his phlegm
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Toyoe
Okabe |
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ruthlessly the
tax collector
demands payment
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Kengo
Hotokebuchi
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at sixty
with obedient ears
I hear two languages
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Fumiko
Kimura |
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look at his pilgrimage
hat
an icon memory of Buddha on it
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Yoshiko
Matsushima |
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downloading
a cherry blossom photo
on my laptop computer
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Raffael
de Gruttola |
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a cat's salute
in the spring wind
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Toyoe
Okabe |
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Composed
to commemorate the 360th anniversary of the birth of Master Basho. Iga-Ueno,
October 2004.
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Copyright 2006: Simply Haiku
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