Basho's frog

Basho's frog...
or reading ten thousand
other poems

Matsuo Basho 1644 - 1694

horohoroto 1688

quietly, quietly

yellow mountain roses fall -

sound of the rapids

Picture and Poem Matsuo Basho 1688 ほろほろと山吹ちるかたきのおと horohoroto yamabuki taki no oto translation - Makoto Ueda

May 6, 2012 - Claude Monet (1840-1926)

 Mohnblumen (Poppies) 1873

haiku garden...

the sound of basho blossoms

where we walk

April 4, 2012

Picture and Poem by Matsuo Basho: ほろほろと山吹ちるかたきのおと Basho Tosei: horohoroto yamabuki taki no oto (IB-371-2, 1688)

each day is a journey, the journey itself home

Matsuo Basho 1644 - 1694 

December 13, 2011

today is the day

people grow older

first wintry shower

- Basho*

today

i go back to bed

frost on the field

- Peach

*translation Jane Reichhold

November 11, 2011

a dragonfly

unable to settle

on the grass

 ~ Basho

August 14, 2011 

Keith Richards with Basho

without Basho...

where silence is music

between sounds

May 9, 2011

don't be like me

even though we're like the melon

split in two

 - Bashõ

don't be like me

even though we're like the pomegranate

full of seeds

~ Peach