Buson's Spring Sea

The sea is really flat here, it just looks curved because of my fisheye lens.  jhh

Many years ago, I asked Kiyoko if people ever repeated a word 

in haiku--haiku being so short, may be it wouldn't work. 

Buson's haiku below was the answer she gave me. 

This came back to me once again, after she died, 

when we visited this overlook to the Monterey Bay

during one of our YT Haiku Retreats at Asilomar. 

Because there is a great deal of kelp visible 

on the surface here, it is easy to see the 

rise and fall, rise and fall of the sea.

                                              jhhymas

हरु नो उमी हिनेमोसू नोटरी नोटरी काना 
haru no umi hinemosu notari notari kana

The spring sea rising 
and falling, rising 
    and falling all day

Buson. 

Translated by Robert Hass.

The spring sea--
all day long it rises and falls
rises and falls

Buson

translated by Robert Aiken