Basho – Snow Haiku

by Mark McGuinness on 3 December, 2010


The snow we saw together -
has it fallen again
this year?

Adapted from Haiku of Basho.

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Dean Johnson January 11, 2011 at 11:59 pm

Nice Mark.
Like an icicle falling
to powdered snow.

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Mark McGuinness January 12, 2011 at 5:17 pm

A haiku comment! Thanks Dean.

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Jacob Mann January 17, 2011 at 9:30 am

peer pressure
broken poetic structure
simply significant

besides the point^
your words are astonishingly appealing

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Mark McGuinness January 17, 2011 at 10:13 am

Heh, this is fun. Not sure it quite counts as renga though. ;-)

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Jacob Mann January 21, 2011 at 9:43 pm

Indeed hence the “broken poetic structure” bit eh? I am an amateur at best with haiku. :p

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