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When I look carefully

I see the nazuna blooming

By the hedge!

Cuando miro con cuidado

Veo florecer la nazuna

Junto al seto!

~Basho (1644-94)

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Flor del Bosque

When I look carefully
I see the nazuna blooming
By the hedge!

Cuando miro con cuidado
Veo florecer la nazuna
Junto al seto!

Haiku by Basho (1644-94)


Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies;-
Hold you here, root and all, in my hand.
Little flower -but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should known what God and man is.

Flor en el muro agrietado,
Te arranco de las grietas; -
Te tomo, con todo y raíces, en mis manos,
Florecilla -pero si pudiera entender
Lo que eres, con todo y tus raíces, y, todo en todo,
Sabría qué es Dios y qué es el hombre.

Tennyson (1809-92)

What is the difference between this two poets?

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haiku
By the way, do you know haiku?
It is very short poem in Japan.
It has only three lines.
In Japanese the lines have five, seven and five syllables.
But only in those lines, people can understand the poet's feeling.

Here is a famous haiku:
Furu-ike ya(古池や)
kazazu tobikomu(蛙飛び込む)
mizu no oto(水の音)

The old pond
a frog jumps in
the sound of water.

You might think "so what is that? or what does it mean?" after reading it.
Haiku has no logic, or no subject and conclusion.
It has just only feeling. That's all.
I can feel it but it is hard for me to explain what it intends...

In the past there was no camera,
and brush and color for painting might be so expensive,
so people clipped and painted the daily scenery by language, not by brush and color.

It is like photography or art.
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