shizukasa ya
iwa ni shimiiru
semi no koe

the stillness—
soaking into stones
cicada’s cry

Matsuo Bashō
(1644–1694)

From The Haiku Handbook (Kodansha, 1985): “Matuso Bashō…made his living traveling around the country, teaching people everywhere he went the art and craft of writing renga, or linked poems.”

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