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Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel Black (11/16/2008 3:19:00 PM)
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How much can be said in so little words.I'm glad I finally discovered who wrote and invented the haiku.Thank you.I wrote some haiku based on THE OLD POND haiku-which is this poet's most famous.
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"Refinement's origin:
the remote north country's
rice-planting song." |
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Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977).
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"Clouds now and again
give a soul some respite from
moon-gazing—behold." |
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Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977).
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