Thursday, February 5, 2015

A Bird Into Clouds

This gull was there during the 2007 YT Haiku Retreat at Asilomar!          jhhymasphoto


autumn sea--
the gull on his rock island
looks at me on mine

Roger Abe

Scattered Acorns; 
Yuki Teikei Membership Anthology 2014, page 9
  
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this autumn
why getting older is like
a bird into clouds

Basho

from Basho; the complete haiku,
Jane Reichhold
Kodansha, 2013, page 239

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