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Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho by Matsuo Bashō
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“Moon woke me up
nine times
—still just 4 a.m.”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
tags: haiku
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“Lightning
doesn't leave you enlightened
—good to know that”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Moon almost full I’m thirty-nine a child still”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Everyone in this house
has gray hair, walks with a cane,
visits the graveyard”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Even in Kyoto     longing for Kyoto            hototogisu”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Old yam digger     please explain            this mountain’s sorrows”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“I'm touched
by this chrysanthemum
it weathered the typhoon”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Sick while traveling
dream of a withered field
wandering around”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Today, tonight is no time to be asleep— moon viewing!”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Autumn again getting old is like a bird flying into a cloud”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Autumn is leaving you’d like to hide in an opium poppy”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“First rain of winter today’s a day people get older”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Moon woke me up nine times —still just 4 a.m.”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Dragonfly can’t decide which blade of grass to land on”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Cherries are in bloom here comes a guy selling yam seeds”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Even badly drawn a morning glory will be charming”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Even a summer day isn’t long enough for singing skylarks”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Weather-beaten heart the wind must blow right through my body”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“Black forest nothing you say matters it snows all morning”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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“When you plant it handle the wild cherry tree like a baby”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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