Backtalk: A Medium Place
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New Year's Day.
Everything is blossoming!
I feel about average…
-Kobayashi Issa
Share some hope for the new year or throw some shade at the past year.
Falling snow
Too brilliant a rainbow
In my dream
-Masajo Suzuki
A bat flits
In the moonlight
Above the plum blossoms.
-Yosa Buson
Out from the darkness
Back into the darkness
The affairs of the cat
Autumn crow
Settling on a withered branch
The branch sighs
-Matsuo Basho
To passing autumn
the pampas grass waves
The cool breeze
Twisted and crooked,
Mountain’s red leaves
The setting sun
Returns to the sky
Teasing a butterfly
With his tail
Playful kitten
The short summer night.
The dream and the real
Are the same things.
-Takahama Kyoshi
The summer rain
Cannot dim
The temple of light
Hydrangeas
Pale blue in the rain
Blue in the moonlight
-Masaoka Shiki
Don't go! Don't go!
All their calls are lies
First firefly
Once over the sea
Winter winds can never
Return home again.
-Seishi Yamaguchi