Welcome to basho-ki 2012
Konnichiwa Welcome to Basho-ki 2012 It has been 318 years since haiku master Matsuo Basho died.
Despite a new computer with a terabyte of space and
lost programs, my chest catheter getting infected,
being pulled out and starting to have to use my
arm for dialysis, then realizing I wasn't as far
along on finishing this Basho-ki page as I thought.
Here we are once again to honor master Matsuo
Basho and his "old pond" frog haiku with
frog haiku submitted by a wonderful array of poets.
Next year will be the 15th anniversary of the
Basho-ki pages, and if all goes well and as
intended, we will have several events going to
celebrate the occasion.
I hope you enjoy this year's selection.
ALL HAIKU ARE COPYRIGHTED AND ARE PROPERTY OF THE ORIGINAL POETS
Samba ..
Carmen Miranda's hat
fruit, flowers and a frog
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mid-summer at
that old pond
I wish I were a frog
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catching tadpoles
and crawfish...
my country home
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playing Frogger
a computer generation
afraid of live frogs
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old storyteller-
one frog begs come across
young frog says "too deep"
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tiny kitten
noses bullfrog
then jump
Samson Park, TX
USA
old pond . . .
the dead frog's white belly
and my tears
Hampden, Maine
USA
Bizarro World
the sound of a frog
unplopping
Shreveport, LA.
USA
(Haiku Elvis Facebook and Twitter pages – June 17, 2012)
HAIKU
One thought in three lines:
Five syllables; then seven;
Ends with five again.
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The green Tree Frogs sit
Quietly waiting for flies.
Big Leopard Frogs croak.
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The cute green tree frogs
On my bright kitchen window
Watch me do dishes.
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Tree frog on palm frond
Under the eaves while it rains
Waiting for entrees.
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Big frogs, tiny frogs,
Each in its window pane spot
Awaiting the moths.
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The tree frogs abound
Hiding in the car door frame
Escaping midday sun.
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Thought of you one day
Saw tree frogs on my window
Need to write a verse.
frog jumped in my path
he must have wanted to play
so i sat with him
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eager little frog
hopping all around the lake
looking for a friend
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at play in the yard
little girl sees tiny frog
frog hurries away
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little fly gets close
frogs tongue flies through the hot air
no more little fly
Texas, USA
with one last quibble
frog vaults from the lily pad
no plans to return
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head first in stork's beak
my only thought of dinner
is I might be his
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our puddle-wriggles
tempt those most feared predators
small boys with glass jars
spring bayou frog spoken here
New Orleans, LA.
USA
the heron waits
at water's edge
a frog swims by
(Originally published with a heron photo as a haiga in Howard Kilby's Haiku Lines, Ouachita Life magazine, April 2011.)
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tree frog
hides in Sunday bouquet...
lunch visitors
Benton, Louisiana
USA
the thrum of wetlands
frog holds its tongue
in the quiet
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Mason jar
the pond sounds
are carried home
Nanaimo, BC
Canada
Amazon rain forest
tree-frog leaps
swoosh …
Fort Worth, TX
USA
frog jumps
into pond joining
five turtles
New Mexico, USA
even with nothing to hold onto floating frog
Winchester, Virginia
USA
Cherish web-foot friends!
Like them, let rainy troubles
Roll right off your back.
Chicago, Illinois
USA
Tadpole, impatient,
Desperate to grow up—ah!
If only you knew.
New York, NY
USA
The frog speaks
a Seer's language
tea leaf reading
New Orleans, LA.
USA
from deep in its throat
ancestry recalled nightly
ripples on the pond
***
one with the other
frog and plant seamless
its scarlet tongue
Shreveport, LA
USA
(an emblematic haiku)
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gardening day --
the toad staring up at me
from the compost pile
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Ecuador --
finally a frog becomes
a prince
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faery elevator
the bullfrog belches
a bubble
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three wyrd sisters
eye of newt and
toe of frog
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spring shower ... in the chimania frogs set up house
KawazuSamson Park, TX
USA
floating lily pad
transparent wings hover
hungry frog leaps
Shreveport, LA.
USA
from rice fields
summer night breeze with
frogs' lullaby
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After the typhoon,
the Kanda River torrents.
Leaping frogs don't leap.
Tokyo, Japan
leaf litter
suitable for haiku
world’s smallest frog*
Shreveport, LA.
USA
*Paedophryne amauensis 7mm (0.27 inches)
If you kiss a frog
Will it turn into a toad
Or will you do that?
Inverness, Florida
USA
vernal pool
the swish
of tadpoles
Plano, TX
USA
Frog moon waiting night
for lake to jump in to frog
Reverse all logic!
***
how long waiting here?
all night long-this moon illumines
circles form-frog PLOP!
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i was a moon once
full ,drunk on lily wine twice
i dreamed a frog PLOP!
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i was that night frog
you saw me jump in to lake
i turned in to moon
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Frog on our night moon
jumps in to our lily lake
becomes a haiku!
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THIRSTY THURSDAY --
Frog Pond Lane off
Dripping Springs*
Austin, TX
USA
(*found haiku)
by clicking on the mail eating frog
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