Haiku.

Jun. 12th, 2008 11:03 pm
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Master Basho says:
No one travels
Along this way but I,
This autumn evening.

Kunjunni Mash says:
നീണ്ട വഴി
മഴക്കാല മൂവന്തി
ഞാനേകന്‍.

Which translates (quite poorly) to: A long way / Rainy day evening / I'm alone.

The Mullah recently quoted Master Basho ("Oh! the stillness - / The voices of the cicadas / Penetrating the rock; / Oh! the stillness!" and "The old pond - / A frog jumps in; / The water sounds - / The old pond!"), which re-sparked a haiku intrigue. On further interrogation, he also mentioned The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and it's Contemporaries.

I think I want to read that, but I also think I'm not quite ready for it yet.
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