#hokku

[litteratice]

ты слышишь шорох? кажется, из подвала что-то полезло

[nira-poetryposting]

once again

in return for love

from you, i ask for nothing

i will ask myself

to show you love once again

if just to love for love's sake

[tamsoj]

Matsuo Bashō, from The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (The Wisdom of the East Series)

[calyptapis]

stillness— sinking into the rocks, cicadas’ cry

Matsuo Bashō, translated by David Landis Barnhill

[collectingforgottenpoetry]

The snow, like silent army, hurries to the       ground; I, by the fireside, lonely watch the yellow hands       of flame, Uplifting as if in prayer. I look around into the silence of the night.

Excerpt from Japanese Hokkus, by Yoné Noguchi. As featured in the 1920 edition by the same name.

[isomorphismes]

In 1793 Bashō was deified by the Shinto bureaucracy, and for a time criticizing his poetry was literally blasphemous. In the late 19th century, … Masaoka Shiki, … Bashō's most famous critic, tore down the long-standing orthodoxy with his … candid objections to Bashō's style. However, Shiki was also instrumental in making Bashō's poetry accessible in English…. He invented the term haiku (replacing hokku) to refer to the freestanding 5–7–5 form which he considered the most artistic and desirable part of the haikai no renga.

[ochoislas]

del mar lejano ondea el verde aguaje... prados de estío

suena la lluvia en hojas de paulonia de madrugada

con la marea la luna se arredra lejos por la marina

suenan quedo bajo la granizada las hojas secas

hojas de escarcha... la única rama verde que pasó el otoño

¿Se hiela la cala? sordo rehíla el agua casi inaudible

el viento se abate del monte... pinos verdes jardín nevado

también la flor retirada en la sierra... prado nevado

  cimas lejanas de aguada... en el jardín árboles muertos

Shinkei

[kittenstern]

And suddenly

Those blue eyes in instagram

Looking at you