Matsuo Basho
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X: Last Poem |
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I
Kare-eda ni
karasu-no tomari-keri
aki-no-kure. - 1679
II
Haru nare ya:
na-mo-naki yama-no
asa-gasumi.
- 1685
III
Kumo ori-ori
hito-ni yasumuru
tsuki-mi kana.
IV
Hatsu aki ya:
umi mo aota-no
hito midori.
- 1688
V
Furuyu-no
hajime ya oku-no
ta-ue-uta.
- 1689
VI
Natsu-gusa ya:
tsuwamono-domo-ga
yume-no-ato.
VII
Shizukasa ya:
iwa ni shimi-iru
semi-no-koe.
VIII
Aki-kaze-no
fuke-domo aoshi
kuri-no-iga.
- 1691
IX
Inazuma ya:
yami-no-kata-yuku
goi-no koe.
- 1694
X
Tabi ni yamite
yume wa kare-no wo
kake-megura.
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I
On a blighted bough
a crow lights for a shakedown -
fall of autumn night.- 1679
II
Spring, all hail!
A nameless hill
In morning-veil.
- 1685
III
Now and then the clouds
unload men of a burden -
looking at the moon.
IV
Thus begins the Fall:
the ocean and the rice-field -
both
the selfsame green.
- 1688
V
So begins all art:
remote inland, a sing-song
midst the rice-planting.
- 1689
VI
Grasses summer-ripe:
the pipedreams of old warriors -
all that's left to them.
VII
How still!
A rock-drill -
The locust's shrill.
VIII
Blows the autumn wind:
behind yet stays a greenness -
husk of the chestnut.
- 1691
IX
Lightning gleam:
Into the gloom
A heron's scream.
- 1694
X: Last Poem
Travel-sickness dreams:
on drought-struck fields they still go
wandering about. |