New Year's morning: 
the ducks on the pond 
quack and quack. 

 
Le matin de nouvelle année: les canards sur le charlatan d'étang et 
le charlatan. 

 
Morgen des neuen Jahres: die Enten auf dem Teich Quack und Quack. 

 
Manhã de ano novo: os patos no quack da lagoa e no quack. 

 
Mañana del Año Nuevo: los patos en el quack de la charca y el quack. 

(These are public search results on the terms: 'Kobayashi Issa: New Year's morning poem')

• <b>Kobayashi Issa</b>(1763-1827) - 李以亮的日志- 网易博客 by 李以亮 (2013/05/04 19:51)

  Kobayashi Issa(1763-1827). 2013-05-05 10:51:57| 分类： 默认分类 | 标签： |字号大中小 订阅. His death poem: A bath when you're born,. a bath when you die,. how stupid. In this world. we walk on the roof of hell,. gazing at flowers. With my father. I would watch ... Windy fall by Kobayashi Issa. At my daughter's grave, thirty days. after her death: Windy fall--. these are the scarlet flowers. she liked to pick. New Year's morning: the ducks on the pond. quack and quack. New Year's Day-- ...
• Sakura Tea : Tasting Cherry Blossoms « Bois de Jasmin by Victoria (2013/04/25 04:08)

  Late cherry blossoms,” wrote the great Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, and as I walk to the subway each morning, I notice how the pink froth lights up the austere grey of the streets of Brussels. I take longer routes so .... Every year I make a cordial of our wild black cherry flowers and twigs that is both delicious and very calming. Some people .... I found a recipe in “The New Book of Middle Eastern Food” by Claudia Roden and it's been copied into my notes. The original ...
• <b>Poems</b> Celebrating Spring | Fenway News Online by Valarie Seabrook (2013/04/09 07:15)

  To which we've added a selection of the new poems on spring themes we've received from contemporary poets around the world: Denis Dunn, “@ 6:13 march morning”. Michael Graves, “Poem to Spring in a Time of Global ...
• Tasty Morsels: NPM 2013 - I is for <b>Issa</b> by Sanjeev (2013/04/09 02:15)

  However, like the book description for Makoto Ueda's book, Dew on the grass:The life and poetry of Kobayashi Issa, says: "While Basho with his mystic asceticism and Buson with his romantic aestheticism immeasurably enriched the haiku tradition, ... May you too enjoy a rich harvest. From the bough floating downriver, insect song. Even with insects-- some can sing, some can't. New Year's morning-- everything is in blossom! I feel about average. New Year's Day— my ...
• The Millions : 21st Century Butterfly, 19th Century Net: Fourteen <b>...</b> by Ellis Avery (2013/03/27 03:00)

  In The Haiku Year, Tom Gilroy's forward discusses mid-20th century roots of Japanese-inspired American haiku: “Jack Kerouac and Michael McClure and the San Francisco poetry Renaissance started the concept of Western .... In the late 17th century, renga poet Matsuo Bashō began composing hundreds of verses in hokku form that were in fact designed to stand alone, a practice echoed by later poets Yosa Buson (1716-1784) and Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827).
• Meg Waite Clayton: A Short History Of Washington&#39;s Cherry Trees by Meg Waite Clayton (2013/03/21 04:00)

  Take a collection of Japanese poetry to read in the shade of the blossoms. Or simply walk in the quiet of the early morning through this beauty that has stood for one hundred and one years. As Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa ...
• First Person Sorrowful by Ko Un | Quarterly Conversation by admin (2013/03/03 09:53)

  the past hundred years' garbage. The next morning drops of dew were ... and the new, silent corpses of several orphans bundled in straw sacks. The next life he ... His long poem “24 Little Songs” reminded me of two very different authors, Wallace Stevens, the American poet who wrote “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” and the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa (a man who suffered much in life and yet who wrote with great gentleness). Both authors shared a focus on ...
• William Horden: Reaching for the Heart of Spring - Huffington Post by William Horden (2013/02/26 01:20)

  Kobayashi Issa. Lesson 4: Stay Awake to the Awe of Each Breath. Issa is one of the four great haiku poets of Japan. He suffered many personal tragedies in life, yet was able to produce a staggering 20,000 poems through it all. ... This lesson complements Rilke's poem above -- which is a straightforward dance of joy -- for Issa ties the birth of the new back to its mortality, allowing us to feel the complete cycle of human life, with all its joys and sorrows, in the ephemera of ...
• A Thing for <b>Poetry</b>: Top 10 Snow <b>Poems</b> by David Clarke (2013/01/22 03:00)

  and percussive as a muffled giant drum. / I hear the lake all night, like a distant war. / In the morning's brightness, / I brush the snow off with a glove, / smooth down a porthole in the crust / and find, somehow, the living green ...
• Still Chalk-Talking: Ahoy, More <b>New Year</b> Notes On Board <b>...</b> by Anne Mollegen Smith (2013/01/06 04:15)

  While Brooklyn Artisan is still hovering over New Year's signs, check out the Couleur Café's New-Year's-with-a-wink sign (above). A nice .... “What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms,” Kobayashi Issa. Take a ... Russian poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky came from working class roots. .... We rented a summer cottage in Effort, Pennsylvania where, every morning, I carefully sharpened every pencil in my collection before sitting down to write.
• Decatur Metro » Happy <b>New Year</b>! by Decatur Metro (2013/01/01 07:40)

  Some holidays lend themselves to some mighty fine poetry. New Year's unique blend of celebration, reflection and anticipation has inspired many a poet over the years. Here's a brief selection of New Year's poems, ...
• maryhealybooks: <b>Poems</b> for The <b>New Year</b> by maryhealybooks (2013/01/01 04:15)

  "The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy "A New Year's Gift, Sent to Sir Simeon Steward" by Robert Herrick "New Year's morning" by Kobayashi Issa "New Year's Day" by Kobayashi Issa "New Year's Morning" by Helen Hunt ...
• The <b>Poetry</b> of R.E. Slater: A Select List of <b>New Year&#39;s Poems</b> by re Slater (2012/12/31 08:58)

  Twenty years ago, half the form / he sleeps within came out of nowhere / with a million micro-lemmings who all died but one / piercer of membrane, specially picked to start a brainmaking, / egg-drop soup, that stirred two sun ...
• The Gentleman from Indiana: <b>Poems</b> for <b>New Year&#39;s</b> Eve by Gary Madden (2012/12/31 08:42)

  By the end of the 19th century, Hardy had established himself as a poet and taken residence in Dorchester where the ancient Scottish New Year's Eve tune surely floated on the chilly wind as the old century came to an end and humanity rushed forward into the 1900's. On December 30, 1900 (the date that in Hardy's ... on the west and it's poetic links with the turning year. Japanese poet and Buddhist priest, Kobayashi Issa, authored a pair of lovely haiku on the subject: ...
• “After the Gentle <b>Poet Kobayashi Issa</b>” by Robert Hass | Nexus by jyourist (2012/12/30 21:02)

  “After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa” by Robert Hass. Posted on December 30, 2012 by jyourist. New Year's morning—. everything is in blossom! I feel about average. xxxx. A huge frog and I. staring at each other,. neither of us moves. xxxx ...
• <b>Poets</b> United: <b>Poetry</b> Pantry - #130 by Mary (2012/12/30 00:00)

  Hello, Friends - Happy Sunday before New Year. Where did the year go?. I want to take this opportunity to wish each of you a very Happy New Year from all of us at Poets United. Thank you for gifting us with your participation, poetry, and your selves during the year. We appreciate YOU. I do know this is still a busy time for ... Good Morning to all, Happy New Year! ReplyDelete · poetry-diary.com December 30, 2012 at 2:30 AM. We are having a pretty wet and miserable ...
• The Perpetual Bird: The Best 10 <b>Poetry</b> Books of 2012 by Joseph Hutchison (2012/12/19 13:39)

  At times in the day / I thought of a fire to watch / not that my hands were cold / but to have that doorway to see through / into the first thing / even our names are made of fire / and we feed on night / walking I thought of a fire ...
• Timely Wisdom: <b>Kobayashi Issa</b>, a japanese haiku master by Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodson (2012/11/20 21:47)

  they are beautiful congratulations issa... you have survived to feed this year's mosquitoes. What good luck! Bitten by this year's mosquitoes too. A giant firefly: that way, this way, that way, this - and it passes by. the first firefly... but he got ... She made faces and kept on. Bouncing the ball. The spring rain; a little girl teaches the cat to dance. The kitten. Holds down the leaf, For a moment. Despite the morning frost - a child selling flowers. The season's first melon clutched in ...
• Timely Wisdom: <b>Kobayashi</b> Isshi by Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodson (2012/09/09 19:13)

  Kobayashi Isshi. Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827) - original name Kobayashi Nobuyki, also called Kobayashi Yataro. He used the simple pen name Issa and is probably the best loved of the haiku masters. As a poet Issa was more ... During his lifetime Issa wrote over 20,000 haiku. Close observations of nature and passing but meaningful personal incidents depict his feelings. Self-portrait - Issa Kobayashi Issa (1763 -1827) New Year's Day-- everything is in blossom!
• <b>issa</b> – cup of tea | Monica Aissa Martinez by monica (2012/09/02 07:32)

  Surprisingly the challenge I have is going from working large (like I have been this last year) to going very small. Small was natural for me. ... She's named after Kobayashi Issa, a Japanese Haiku poet and lay person Buddhist Priest. Today I learn Issa means ... This is beautiful, and it reminds me of another cat who used to wander the neighborhood and join me for my morning tea… monica on September 3, ... Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Join 103 other ...
• Come, Sit by the Hearth ...: What Does a <b>Poet</b> Laureate Do? Robert <b>...</b> by Snowball (2012/07/24 00:01)

  How about a bit of poetry: After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa. New Year's morning—. everything is in blossom! I feel about average. A huge frog and I. staring at each other,. neither of us moves. This moth saw brightness ...
• <b>Poem</b> in Your Pocket Day . . . | Haiku-doodle by Margaret Dornaus (2012/04/25 22:01)

  from every direction / cherry blossom petals blow / into Lake Biwa / –Matsuo Basho / this piercing cold I feel / my dead wife's comb, in our bedroom / under my heel . . . . / –Yosa Buson / to hold my wife / treading spring noon's ...
• Book Review – The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, & <b>Issa</b> by cclcirculationdesk (2012/04/10 16:56)

  The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, & Issa edited by Robert Hass. For those looking for an introduction to Haiku, for those who love poetry, or for those who simply are looking for something new, try Robert Haas's ...
• Etsy Earth: <b>POETRY</b> by Matsuo Basho and <b>Kobayashi Issa</b> by Etsy Earth (2012/01/30 05:22)

  corners of this. floating world, swept. New Year's morning by Kobayashi Issa. New Year's morning: ... ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: earth, environment, etsy, holiday, Members, nature, Poetry, quotes, Sustainability ...
• The Winter Haiku Forecast | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です by owwls (2012/01/11 05:30)

  “Writing shit about new snow for the rich is not art.” - Kobayashi Issa (trans. Robert Hass). We're entering the official “late winter” season in the Japanese Poet's Meteorological Service forecasts, according to the saijiki, the book that regulates the topics of seasonal ... Within the hour, the room freezes again, and by morning I typically have a cold-induced seizure while brushing my teeth. ... Pampas grass grows year-round, even in snow, and looks a bit like feathers.
• To the <b>New Year</b> by W.S. Merwin | Read A Little <b>Poetry</b> by T. (2012/01/02 03:36)

  and did not know you at all / then the voice of a dove calls / from far away in itself / to the hush of the morning / so this is the sound of you / here and now whether or not / anyone hears it this is / where we have come with our ...
• I Feel About Average | Like Fire - Open Letters Monthly by Lisa Peet (2012/01/01 21:14)

  New Year's Day Kobayashi Issa. New Year's Day— everything is in blossom! I feel about average. (Translated by Robert Hass). Yes, another poem. Poetry is good for us, and reading a new poem every morning will stretch ...
• <b>New Year&#39;s</b> Day - A <b>Poem</b> A Day from the George Hail Library by maria horvath (2012/01/01 06:29)

  New Year's Day. (Elizabeth's Book, Newton, Connecticut by. André Kertész, 1894-1985, Hungarian-born photographer) A haiku. New Year's Day — everything is in blossom! I feel about average. ~ Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), Japanese poet. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to ... MARIA HORVATH THE EDITOR More than eight years ago, I began emailing a different poem every morning to my friends and friends of my friends. I'm a freelance editor. In June ...
• sue the impossible dream hanes: three <b>new year&#39;s poems</b> by sue hanes (2011/12/31 12:12)

  For auld lang syne, my jo, For auld lang syne, We'll take a cup o' Kindness yet, For auld lang syne. ~Robert Burns (1759-1796) New Year's Day-- everything is in blossom! I feel about average. ~a haiku by Kobayashi Issa ...
• <b>Poetry</b> Prompt #84 - Happy <b>New Year</b> - The Music In It: Adele <b>...</b> by ADELE KENNY (2011/12/31 08:16)

  Ring out the false, ring in the true. And this haiku in which Kobayashi Issa approaches the New Year with reverence and humility: New Year's Day –. everything is in blossom! I feel about average. Other New Year's poems: ...
• Althouse: Happy <b>New Year</b>... by Ann Althouse (2011/12/31 05:51)

  I think I'll just take my lead from a verse by the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828). New Year's Day — everything is in .... The wife has to play for the Nine o'clock tomorrow morning. I sure hope to be a better person in ...
• <b>Poets</b> United: The <b>Poetry</b> Pantry Is Now Open! - # 81 by Robert Lloyd (2011/12/25 23:01)

  The Poets United Community would like to wish you happy New Year. Whatever and wherever you celebrate or even if you do not celebrate we hope the upcoming year is a great one for all our our poets, friends and their ...
• <b>Poetry</b> Picnic Week 19: Forgiveness, Gift, Holiday Songs by Morning (2011/12/25 10:00)

  Thank you so much Morning and everyone one else at the Poetry Picnic for the amazing opportunity you have given us over the past year and to what you are sure to give us again in the New Year! Since I'm on holiday I might not be around much to read, but I will try to get around to others over the .... Kobayashi Issa, (1763-1827) A Haiku Poet with Enormous Heart. 14 hours ago. R H Y T H M U S [ Inside My Poem Book ] · Poem for my Mother - Happy Mothers Day!
• Tinfish Editor&#39;s Blog: "In God&#39;s name don&#39;t think of it as Art": On first <b>...</b> by Susan M. Schultz (2011/11/23 11:55)

  In 1980, Howell Raines of the New York Times revisited the three poor Alabama families of whose lives James Agee and Walker Evans made immortal art forty years earlier in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Those forty years, it turned .... Kobayashi Issa, The Spring of My Life and Selected Poems (prose & haiku), Shambhala Publications. Santoka Taneda, Mountain ... Darryl Babe Wilson, The Morning The Sun Went Down, Heyday Books. Mavis McCovey and John ...
• Harpblog: Camac Voice, September 2011: Elisabeth Valletti by Helen Radice (2011/09/07 00:11)

  What better way to begin the new season than with a new Camac Voice providing the opening music to our commercial site, www.camac-harps.com! ... Elisabeth's resulting album, Innocenti, was described by Brian Eno as “one of the best- produced things I've heard in years. ... All three Harp Haikus performed at the Qwartz Awards – The Cat, The Mosquito and The Gargoyle – are inspired by haikus written by the nineteenth-century Japanese poet Issa Kobayashi.
• Great Books for Horse Lovers: Sugar Cubes: The Essential Haiku <b>...</b> by Vanessa Wright (2011/06/29 08:46)

  The new foal sticks her nose up through the irises - by Kobayashi Issa, translated by Robert Hass, from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa Haiku are the sugar cubes of poetry. Made up of three phrases ...
• Male Monday: Haiku of <b>Kobayashi Issa</b> | Crazy QuiltEdi by Edi (2011/05/23 16:20)

  Since May is Asian Pacific Heritage month, I thought this Monday would be a good time to feature Cool Melons–Turn to frogs: The life and poems of Issa Story and Haiku translations by Matthew Gollub; Illustrations by Kazuko G. Stone. Published by Lee and ... The poem on this particular page was written by Issa when he was just 6 years old. The poems are ... Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 1,044 ...
• Old Cookbooks | The Gentleman from Indiana by G (2011/03/09 16:44)

  Japanese poet and Buddhist priest, Kobayashi Issa, authored a pair of lovely haiku on the subject: Kobayashi Issa. New Year's Day. New Year's Day--. everything is in blossom! I feel about average. New Year's Morning. New ...
• <b>Morning</b> After | Cloaked Monk&#39;s Blog by cloakedmonk (2011/01/01 00:00)

  Morning After. Arkham Horror. Board Game: Arkham Horror. Streamers strewn, Cups capsized, Board-Games bedraggled, New-year nativity. ~Terri Stewart January 2, 2011. A Small Stone ... of Stones, aros, Poetry, Uncategorized. Tagged as aros, micro-poetry, NaSmaStoMo, National Small Stone Month, New Years, poetry · ← Poverty · Black Ice → ... RT @DailyKu In this world / We walk on the roof of hell / Gazing at flowers // #haiku by Kobayashi Issa.- 19 hours ago ...
• Ox Herding: Haiku for <b>New Year&#39;s</b> Day by Barry Briggs (2010/12/30 02:00)

  Haiku for New Year's Day. Solstice New Year's morning-- everything is in blossom! I feel about average. Kobayashi Issa. On New Year's Day each thought a loneliness as winter dusk descends. Matsuo Basho. Along my journey through this transitory world, new year's housecleaning. Matsuo Basho. Let myself go to bed; New Year's Day is only a matter for tomorrow. Yosa Buson. New Year's first poem written, now self-satisfied, O haiku poet! Yosa Buson. Photo by Well ...
• <b>Issa&#39;s</b> Untidy Hut: <b>Poems</b> from Dew on the Grass: <b>Issa</b> by Issa's Untidy Hut (2010/09/10 03:15)

  the morning glory--- no human face is pure of blemishes. There have been other versions of this poem that I have seen and enjoyed but this one sidesteps an overt comparison of its two elements, feeling more objective in its execution. This is a favorite of mine, ... Even for the lice it is a bright beautiful New Year's - from this translation it is difficult to gather the mood, but knowing Issa and his reverence for his bug menagerie, I'm thinking upbeat. mother I never knew--- ...
• <b>Issa&#39;s</b> Untidy Hut: 250 Near Perfect Books of <b>Poetry</b> by Issa's Untidy Hut (2010/05/14 03:24)

  It all started back just two years ago and has grown to quite an expansive list. It even spawned .... The Dumpling Field by Kobayashi Issa, trans. by Lucien Styrk. A Few Flies and .... The Morning of a Poem by James Schuyler ... New Math by Cole Swenson. Poems New and Collected by Wisława Szymborska translated by S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh. View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska. Poems to Eat by Takuboku, translated by Carl Sesar. Memoir of ...
• <b>Kobayashi Issa</b> (1763-1827) by luisa castillo (2009/08/08 09:01)

  Japanese writer and poet, whose original name was "Kobayashi Nobuyuki" and nicknamed "Yataro" in its infancy. Lost his mother shortly after birth, leaving the care of his grandmother. ... This moon tonight... * New Year's morning: The ducks on the pond quack and quack. * Last time, I think, I'll brush the flies. From my father's face. * Children imitating cormorants. Are even more wonderful. Than cormorants. * The crow. Walks along there. As if it were tilling the field.
• <b>Issa&#39;s</b> Untidy Hut: Recent News and One from the Archive by Issa's Untidy Hut (2009/05/06 03:08)

  For those who have not yet heard, nearly 200 years after his death, two new poems by Kobayashi Issa have been discovered. Here's an article from Mainichi Daily News with the details. If you are not familiar with the work of ...
• An Indecisive Life: <b>Poems</b> from <b>Kobayashi Issa</b> by C'est moi (2009/04/21 20:26)

  Poems from Kobayashi Issa. New Year's morning -. everything is in blossom! I feel about average. ------. For you fleas too. the nights must be long,. they must be lonely. Don't kill that fly! Look - it's wringing its hands,. wringing ...
• Satia&#39;s Journal: The Spring of My Life by <b>Kobayashi Issa</b> by Satia (2009/02/17 04:56)

  Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (trans. by Sam Hamill) is a lovely collection of haibun and haiku by the poet traditionally known as Issa. The elegance of his prose, his ability to communicate Buddhist ...
• f/k/a . . . the archives » out on the town with “Ed Post” by David Giacalone (2009/02/01 07:58)

  Monday morning, Ed hops back on Amtrak, tooting and tweeting his way south to New York City, where he'll be schmoozing with some of the luminaries of the world of legal weblogs. Schenectady will miss him, and we might even be working on a plaque to greet his ... seems unable this morning to sustain any new haiku moments. If you came for haiku today, here's a reprise of poems from Kobayashi Issa, celebrating Chinese/Japanese New Year: on New Year's day ...
• f/k/a . . . the archives » <b>new year</b> already old hat by David Giacalone (2009/01/02 19:48)

  ... persuasiveness and the willingness to have the courage to do the right thing — which the LSAT does not measure;” I'm going to settle for posting a handful of New Year's poems by Master Haiku poet Kobayashi Issa, who always seems ... 3, 2009): Scott Greenfield expands (as he does so well) on this topic this morning at Simple Justice, in “A New Year's Shelf Life,” where he laments that the problem of the “contraction of the Happy New Year greeting opportunity” is ...
• <b>Issa&#39;s</b> Untidy Hut: Short <b>Poem</b> Sunday by Issa's Untidy Hut (2008/11/16 04:00)

  Short Poem Sunday. Here's an Issa haiku from Dew on the Grass: the Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa by Makoto Ueda: this loneliness— whichever way I look wild violets. Issa. This Issa book is going for almost a hundred dollars on amazon, so I will be featuring haiku from it occasionally in future posts. ... in an assisted living place but that was two years ago. .... Song For a New Morning · What Hope Means . ... New UC Press Author Asks: Who Profits From Poverty?
• f/k/a . . . the archives » haiku tradition: <b>Issa</b>, Lanoue and the Harvest <b>...</b> by David Giacalone (2008/09/15 08:24)

  Issa Self-portrait with poem .. “Gimme that harvest moon!” cries the crying child .. by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue .. A cold front is moving into Schenectady today, after a sultry weekend that simply did not jibe with tonight's arrival of the ... “The night of the harvest moon–the full moon nearest to the autumn equinox–is, along with New Year's Day and the blooming of cherry blossoms, one of the top three most important dates in a haiku poet's calendar.” ...
• <b>Issa&#39;s</b> Untidy Hut: <b>Issa</b>, Brautigan, and an Interview by Issa's Untidy Hut (2008/08/27 03:36)

  kobayashi-issa-where-there-are-humans/ ... Also found this morning a great list, though I'm not sure great for the intended reason, entitled Ten Poems to Read When You Get Stuffed in Your Locker (I actually saw a fellow student stuffed into his locker by the principal, at a Catholic high school, ... In any case, this is a wonderful selection of fine poems (ok, the J. V. Cunningham poem addressed to a 30 year old may not be for the locker-stuffed crowd) for nearly everyone.
• weaklingrecords: Friday is <b>Poetry</b> Day by Walter A. Brosco, esq. (2008/07/18 07:59)

  flies, so relax, make love. Even with insects-- some can sing, some can't. The moon and the flowers, forty-nine years, walking around, wasting time. What good luck! Bitten by this year's mosquitoes too. Red morning sky, snail; are you glad ... so please move, cricket. The holes in the wall play the flute this autumn evening. Writing shit about new snow for the rich is not art. The world of dew is the world of dew, And yet, and yet-- ~ Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827). Tags: poetry ...
• lawrence and the flamingos – a Stockade Valentine mystery by David Giacalone (2008/02/15 15:32)

  16, 2008 update/insert): Our Honored Guest and friend Ed Markowski swooped in overnight with his own flock of flamingo poems for our Lawrence Flamingo Celebration. Here are a trio; check our Comments ... a New Year's present! her pink cheeks …………….. by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue. it's pink! it's purple! sunset inspires more bickering ……………….. by david giacalone, Frogpond Vol. XXVIII, #2 (2005) [haiga photo: Arthur Giacalone; see ...
• WKD - Saijiki for Festivals and Ceremonies: First Laugh (hatsu warai) by Gabi Greve (2008/01/02 23:48)

  Season: New Year ***** Category: Humanity ***************************** Explanation First laugh, waraizome 笑初 (わらいぞめ) ..... hatsu warai 初笑（はつわらい) First smiling face, hatsu egao 初笑顔（はつえがお） First smile, hatsu ekubo 初 .... kata chichi o nigiri nagara ya hatsu warai while grasping mama's breast... the year's first smile 乞食やもらひながらのはつ笑ひ koijiki ya morai nagara no hatsu warai a beggar receives alms, the year's first laughter. Kobayashi Issa ...
• <b>POETS</b> ONLINE blog: Haiku For Blog Action Day by Poets Online (2007/10/15 20:24)

  I enjoy haiku for many reasons, but I do particularly like the close-up focus they often take on something in nature. A few haiku from "After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa" by Robert Hass New Year's morning— everything is in ...
• f/k/a . . . the archives » the pond warms up by David Giacalone (2007/06/16 20:29)

  Thanks to the patience, persistence and skills of Yu and John, an all-day drafting session resulted in a jointly-written, 12-verse (jûnichô) renku called “Chinese New Year.” Now, in ... Because our Honored Guest David Lanoue has translated almost 8000 poems of the Japanese haiku Master Kobayashi Issa at his HaikuGuy website, it was no surprise that the first two results for the Google search were from Lanoue's website (which contains 40 poems on the lowly topic).
• Introducing Haiku <b>Poets</b> and Topics . . . . . WKD: Mount Asama by Gabi Greve (2007/04/08 23:33)

  Japanese Haiku and Kigo. Shinano, Issa, Basho. Mount Asama. ... I visited the temle and shrine on the slopes of Mt. Asama quite some years ago, but the images are still quite vivid. Little trees trying to survive in the lava, ...
• Introducing Haiku <b>Poets</b> and Topics . . . . . WKD: Shadow (kage) by Gabi Greve (2007/03/01 01:20)

  sunny morning ~ bare feet on cool grass tread on my shadow © Maatkara first warm spring day. I take my shadow for a walk © George Swede *********************************** HAIKU . WKD : Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 . 墓の木の陰法師ふまぬ角力哉 haka no ki no ... It's not known when this hokku was written, but it's a variant of a similar hokku written at New Year's in 1817, when Issa was traveling around in the area just east of Edo. In 1817 lunar New Year's fell on ...
• First Spring (hatsu haru) <b>New Year</b> - WKD (03) ..... SAIJIKI of all <b>...</b> by Gabi Greve (2007/02/05 18:27)

  spring of this morning, kesa no haru 今朝の春 spring of today, kyoo no haru 今日の春 spring of this day, hi no haru 日の春 spring at the corner, .... have New Year's This is an important New Year's poem Issa wrote very early in 1813. Since New Year's and the beginning of lunar spring usually coincided or nearly coincided, spring in haikai was often a synonym for New Year's. This year Issa is spending New Year's in his snow-covered hometown, but according to one of ...
• Say Something Wonderful: Happy <b>New Year</b>! by em Selinger (2007/01/01 11:31)

  ... cleverly, or the other sonic pleasures in these lines? That's the first task, perhaps, of this quarter's ENG 220. I'll keep you posted on how it goes. After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa. by Robert Hass. New Year's morning— ...
• November Sky <b>Poetry</b>: <b>Poem</b> Spark Jan. 1-8 - <b>Poems</b> of beginning by Christine Klocek-Lim (2007/01/01 09:28)

  Thomas Hardy's poem of farewell to the 19th century: The Darkling Thrush Charles Reznikoff's celebration of the common: Te Deum Kobayashi Issa's merry greeting to the New Year: New Year's morning. Have fun and be ...
• Integral Options Cafe: Sunday <b>Poet</b>: <b>Poems</b> for the <b>New Year</b> by WH (2006/12/31 08:09)

  Here is one last collection of poems honoring the holiday season before I get back to presenting individual poets. After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa by Robert Hass New Year's morning— everything is in blossom!
• First Sun, First Sunrise, Sun - World Kigo Database by Gabi Greve (2006/12/28 14:59)

  For Japanese, first sunrise of the year is special. It is a kind of spiritual event called "Hatsuhi-no-de" in Japan. Many Japanese wake up early in the New Year's morning to watch the first sunrise and pray to sun for their annual ...
• Japan attractions: Haiku of <b>Kobayashi Issa</b> by Branko Rakic (2006/06/10 00:56)

  Haiku of Kobayashi Issa. About Issa He was born in the little village of Kashiwabara in the mountains of Japan's Shinano Province on the fifth day of Fifth Month, 1763: June 15 on the Western calendar. He died in the same village on the 19th of Eleventh ... Third Month, 26th day, Issa leaves Edo on a journey to visit haiku poets in Shimôsa Province. ... *In the traditional Japanese way of counting age, a child is one at birth and gains a year with each New Year's Day.
• <b>New Year</b> (shin-nen) - World Kigo Database by Gabi Greve (2006/02/05 20:00)

  straw for the new year - about ten fellows working in the garden. Kobayashi Issa Tr. Gabi Greve 福わらや塵さへ今朝のうつくしき fukuwara ya gomi sae kesa no utsukushiki new auspicious straw - this morning even the dirt ...
• <b>Poems</b> for the <b>New Year</b>- <b>Poets</b>.org - <b>Poetry</b>, <b>Poems</b>, Bios & More by unknown (2004/12/29 17:00)

  Finally, Kobayashi Issa, a great practitioner of the haiku form, approached the new year with a sense of humility and reverence: New Year's Day-- everything is in blossom! I feel about average. Here is a short list of New Year's poems to call on after the ... "One Year ago--jots what?" by Emily Dickinson "At the Entering of the New Year" by Thomas Hardy "The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy "A New Year's Gift, Sent to Sir Simeon Steward" by Robert Herrick "New Year's morning" by ...

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