Yosa Buson Poems

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 A bat flits
in moonlight
above the plum blossoms....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Before the white chrysanthemum
the scissors hesitate
 a moment....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Blow of an ax,
pine scent,
the winter woods....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Buying leeks
and walking home
 under the bare trees....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Calligraphy of geese
against the sky--
 the moon seals it....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Coolness--
the sound of the bell
 as it leaves the bell....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Dawn--
fish the cormorants haven't caught
swimming in the shallows....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 STILL as the holy of holies breathes the vast,
Within its crystal depths the stars grow dim;
Fire on the altar of the hills at last
 Burns on the shadowy rim.


Moment that holds all moments; white upon
The verge it trembles; then like mists of flowers
Break from the fairy fountain of the dawn
 The hues of many hours.


Thrown downward from that high...Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Early summer rain--
houses facing the river,
 two of them...Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Evening wind:
water laps
 the heron's legs....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Harvest moon--
called at his house,
he was digging potatoes....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 His Holiness the Abbot
is shitting
in the withered fields....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Lighting one candle
with another candle--
 spring evening....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Listening to the moon,
gazing at the croaking of frogs
in a field of ripe rice....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 My arm for a pillow,
I really like myself
under the hazy moon....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Old well,
a fish leaps--
 dark sound....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
 open....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 The spring sea rising
and falling, rising
 and falling all day....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 Below are eleven Buson haiku
beginning with the phrase
'The short night--'


The short night--
on the hairy caterpillar
beads of dew.

The short night--
patrolmen
washing in the river.

The short night--
bubbles of crab froth
among the river reeds.

The short night--
a broom thrown away
on the beach.

The short night--
the Oi River
has sunk two feet.

The short night--
on the outskirts of the village
a small shop opening.

The short night--
broken, in the shallows,
a...Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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 White blossoms of the pear
and a woman in moonlight
 reading a letter....Read more of this...

by Buson, Yosa

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