I've chosen Japanese haiku for my very first entry on Garden Blogger's Muse Day. The brief and fleeting impressions that the great poets have written have always been favorites of mine.
The symbols I'm decorating this page with are traditional Japanese calligraphy called Shodo. They have been used in Japan for 1,300 years. I think they add to the feelings of the poems.
The symbols I'm decorating this page with are traditional Japanese calligraphy called Shodo. They have been used in Japan for 1,300 years. I think they add to the feelings of the poems.
Moonlight slanting
Through all this
Long bamboo grove . . .
And nightingale song.
Basho
"Wa" - Harmony - Peace***************************
On that inch of land
Beans grew to
Our very door . . .
Yet grand in moonlight!
Issa
"Yume" - Dream************************
Two water-lilies
Shining serenely
Golden . . .
Raindrop-dimpled pool.
Buson
"Sei, Shizuka" - Tranquility 
