Edited by Jim McCrory, Wednesday, 18 Dec 2024, 08:11
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I was thinking of the
haiku I read a while back. I was having a coffee coffee in Waterstones in Glasgow.
I was reading large book
on the bookshop shelf called Haiku illustrated: Japanese Short Poems.
It’s a nicely illustrated book and if my wife reads this (and she will), she may keep it in mind for our next anniversary.
The haiku that caught the
most attention was one of the early haikus in the book by Matsuo Bashō,
On a withered branch
A crow has alighted—
Nightfall in autumn."
Here Bashō, juxtaposes
nightfall with the emergence of winter. It makes me feel somewhat melancholy. In our busy world, it's good to take time of and visit a natural environment and just live in the moment and notice as Bashō was in the habit of doing.
Matsuo Bashō: Bless Him
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I was thinking of the haiku I read a while back. I was having a coffee coffee in Waterstones in Glasgow.
I was reading large book on the bookshop shelf called Haiku illustrated: Japanese Short Poems. It’s a nicely illustrated book and if my wife reads this (and she will), she may keep it in mind for our next anniversary.
The haiku that caught the most attention was one of the early haikus in the book by Matsuo Bashō,
On a withered branch
A crow has alighted—
Nightfall in autumn."
Here Bashō, juxtaposes nightfall with the emergence of winter. It makes me feel somewhat melancholy. In our busy world, it's good to take time of and visit a natural environment and just live in the moment and notice as Bashō was in the habit of doing.