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falling leaf -
a trembling flower
its fragrance
© gillena cox 2019



BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Carpe Diem
#1629 Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage ... the East route
Challenge: to write a new haiku inspired by these two from Basho

from what tree's
blossoms I know not:
such fragrance
© Basho (Tr. Barnhill)

month's end, no moon:
a thousand year cedar
embraced by a windstorm
© Basho (Tr. Barnhill)


REVISIT
19 March 2017
19 March 2016
19 March 2014

1657

from the cherry tree
fruits roll under the jasmine shrub -
hot day

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hot day -
brown doves coo in the shade
of jasmines

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whites of jasmines
scent eventide -
flickers from fireflies
© gillena cox



sharing today at
Carpe Diem #730 shaded by blossoms


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Carpe Diem On the Trail with Basho Encore (01), a grass pillow



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Carpe DiemSpecial #147 - "Those Fireflies" by Yosa Buson

One Plumeria

Hiss