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Welcome. What you will find here will be my random thoughts and reactions to various books I have read, films I have watched, and music I have listened to. In addition I may (or may not as the spirit moves me) comment about the fantasy world we call reality, which is far stranger than fiction.

Showing posts with label Basho: The Complete Haiku. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Basho: The Complete Haiku. Show all posts

Friday, January 12, 2018

Basho: some winter haiku

Some winter haiku by Basho. While it seldom, if ever, gets this cold in Tucson, I grew up in Chicago, and I remember those wintry days and ...

Friday, March 17, 2017

Basho's frog

This is probably one of Basho's most famous haiku. I have a book titled Basho's One Hundred Frogs, a collection of 100 differen...

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Missed cultural signals

No. 93 well nothing happened yesterday has passed away with globefish soup -- Basho -- from The Complete Haiku Tex...

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

A Minute Meditation

No. 36 inside the temple visitors cannot know cherries are blooming -- Basho -- from Basho: The Complete ...

Friday, July 22, 2016

Basho: just a brief post on a haiku

The following are two translations of a haiku by Basho that caught my attention. The reversal is what made me stop and consider it. No. 7 ...

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