Basho

A Selection of Matsuo Basho's Haiku
Scarecrow in the hillock Paddy field -- How unaware!  How useful! Passing through the world Indeed this is just Sogi's rain shelter. A wild sea- In the distance over Sado The Milky Way. The she cat - Grown thin From love and barley. How wild the sea is,  and over Sado Island,  the River of Heaven Morning and evening Someone waits at Matsushima! One-sided love. Wrapping dumplings in  bamboo leaves, with one finger  she tidies her hair On Buddha's birthday  a spotted fawn is born – just like that On Buddha's deathday,  wrinkled tough old hands pray –  the prayer beads' sound I like to wash, the dust of this world In the droplets of dew. With dewdrops dripping,  I wish somehow I could wash  this perishing world