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Haiku 01 by Masaoki Shiki

11/22/2008 4:08:57 PM

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Masaoki Shiki
(1867 - 1902)

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Haiku 01

In the coolness
of the empty sixth-month sky...
the cuckoo's cry.

Masaoki Shiki

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Dimitris(Jimmy) Psachos (6/17/2007 8:13:00 AM)
Speechless...a worthy descendant of the great haiku pieces! Profound and expressive, the cuckoo is probably his despair to the supposed assurance of recent happy events. It presents the real, empty, shallow attitude of(his?) world.

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