Having Felled Poem by Masaoka Shiki

Having Felled

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Having felled
A pasania tree,-
the sky of autumn.

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Fabrizio Frosini 20 May 2016

by Masaoka Shiki, a different haiku with 'cotton roses' cotton roses flowering — the mandarin duck in the old pond is a widower - ''cotton rose'' is a plant with white and red flowers - here 'widower' is not a simile: traditionally, people in Japan (and Cina and Korea) believed that these ducks mate for life. In Masaoka Shiki's haiku, the duck is the survived member of a couple.

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