Without just one nest
A bird can call the world home
Life is your career
-- Fight Club (Votes: 31)  |
Flowers bloom and die
Wind brings butterflies or snow
A stone won't notice
-- Fight Club (Votes: 34) |
Worker bees can leave
Even drones can fly away
The Queen is their slave
-- Fight Club (Votes: 34) |
An old pond!
A frog jumps in-
The sound of water.
-- Matsuo Basho (Votes: 42) |
even wild roses
of a downtrodden land
reach enlightenment
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 30) |
Basho's Death-Day--
the pigeons and sparrows
in their Sunday best
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 26) |
looking, looking
at the mandarin orange...
year's first calligraphy
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 31) |
our ceremony--
just a lot of noise
to the cuckoo
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 20) |
Great Japan!
where a bird sings
the Lotus Sutra
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 42) |
the old hand
swats a fly
already gone
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 36) |
corner spider
rest easy, my soot-broom
is idle
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 32) |
in a new bucket
the same water...
looks so fresh!
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 32) |
the distant mountain
reflected in his eyes...
dragonfly
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 31) |
a hot night's pilgrimage
with song...
Zenko Temple
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 31) |
when will it become
a cricket's nest?
my white hair
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 23) |
"Come, spring!
Come, old man!"
the pigeon coos
-- Kobayashi Issa (Votes: 19) |
Evening snow falling,
a pair of mandarin ducks
on an ancient lake.
-- Shiki (Votes: 35) |
A stray cat
excreting
in the winter garden.
-- Shiki (Votes: 20) |
