I hate Haikus

[Piano Mouth]

anyone care to share their favorite haiku poems?

[SqDanceCallingSteve]

In Kyoto,
hearing the cuckoo,
I long for Kyoto.

The old pond-
a frog jumps in,
sound of water.

-- Basho


A huge frog and I,
staring at each other,
neither of us moves.

All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.

Blossoms at night,
and the faces of people
moved by music.

-- Issa

[caiverzi]

Expected more love for the so-called gendai haiku around here...


like squids
bank clerks are fluorescent
from the morning
—Kaneko Tōta (trans. Makoto Ueda)

from the sight
of the man who was killed
we also vanished
—Murio Suzuki (trans. by Gendai Haiku Kyokai)

revolution
in the snowy kiosk
for sale .?

first day of winter –
on a walk turning completely
into a stick
— Hoshinaga

[Steve Minkin]

Expected more love for the so-called gendai haiku around here...

Can't love what you don't know! Those are outstanding. Thanks!

http://gendaihaiku.com/
https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2009 ... dai-haiku/