Monday, 13 October 2014

Monk Sips His Morning Tea


Chrysanthemum
silence - monk
sips his morning tea.

Matsuo Basho


Chrysanthemum, Japenese maple and pine.
Old tea box.
Naturalistic freestyle.


Haiku from:
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
Trans. from Japanese with introduction by Lucien Styrk
Penguin Classics, 1985

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