Three Haiku by Matsuo Basho
(1644 – 1694)
A bee
staggers out
of the peony.
When I looked under the hedge-
the little grass called
shepherd’s purse
was flowering.
The old pond-
a frog jumps in,
sound of water.
Hass, Robert., ed. The
Essential Haiku. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press: 1994. p.18.
