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Tuesday, 23 February 2010

BASHO's FROG

The old pond,


A frog jumps in:

Plop!

 
 
Basho's famous Haiku - there are many translations. For the Philosophic Toad in us all!

2 comments:

The Philosophic Toad said...

Toad likes that one, Woodsy ^_^

Here's a SWORD/Spacex one:
__________________________

Bright stars beckoning,
Rocket poised ready:
Whooosh!

WOODSY said...

Beautiful PT! having looked up haiku on wiki they need a seasonal element and a verb and in a 5,7,5 syllable stack, although it's not strictly about syllables, maybe more sounds. You got the lot there PT! Swordaiku!

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