On Love and Barley HAIKU OF BASHO
When the girls planted the
last rice-seed, I stepped from
the willow's shade
Together lets eat ears of
wheat, share a grass
pillow.
Squid seller
harping cuckoo -
one voicce
Husking rice
a child stands up
to view the moon
Beyond potato fields,
temple gate
lost in goose-grass
cow carting fern and rice-cakes
this year of the cow
whose bride are you
back