Greetings, Poetry Lovers!
It's been a while since I shared an Issa poems from David G. Lanoue's amazing treasure house of thousands of Issa poems he has translated (up to more than 12,000 now....)
So here are a few to welcome summer, and you can find details about these, and many more summer poems, here. (Just put any term you are interested in into the search box. I found these with "summer.")
Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)
meeting at the fence--
an early summer rain
streams down
answering prayers
for the grasses...
summer heat
amid scented cedars
a bush warbler's song...
new summer robes
making the lawn
a sit-down teahouse...
summer trees
short summer night--
a deer pokes her face
through the hedge
All poems translated by David G. Lanoue and used with permission. Learn more about David here.
Wishing you and yours a fantabulous start to summer. My blog will be taking a wee break for June as we have several trips planned, plus elbow surgery for the pup, who turns 1 at the end of the month. Our first little trip is to celebrate our Baby Grand's SECOND birthday - how did that happen so fast?! We have a wedding anniversay in June, too - number 40! (Yes, we were babes when we got married - Ha!)
I'll see you in a few weeks (and look forward to hosting in July). Be sure to start your first weekend in June off with all the poetic goodness hosted by the oh-so-talented Janice at Salt City Verse. She's highlighting Carol Labuzzetta's new anthology!