Basho's 150th Birth Anniversary International Renku Meeting
Typohoon Over
A Half-Kasen Renku, Written at World Haikai Fusion 2004, Iga Ueno, Japan, 10 October 2004
Za: Flowering Pampas Grass — Sabaki: Tarô Miyashita
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Japanese Text.
English Text and Comments.
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Typhoon over—
we journey to Ueno
with the morning sun
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Penny Harter
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scattered around the castle
many kinds of nuts
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Tarô Miyashita
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for moon-viewing
taros boiled
in butter sauce
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Masa Yamada
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kids and a cat
peek into it |
Mikiko Koga
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summer begins
the sound of a flute
echoes on the hill
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Teina Asaka
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on the water's surface
the shadow of a waterstrider
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Mikiko
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after the illness
her lingering cough—
x-ray appointment
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Penny
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I want to know
everything about you
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Masa
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longing for
the Narrow Road of Oku
two together
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Tarô
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the homeless man
still lost in memory
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Penny
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downtown
they'll maybe open up
a shot bar
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Mikiko
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the mechanical clock
stopped by the freezing moon
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Teina
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at year's end
the price of crude oil
jumps up
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Masa
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among the ferns
a dinosaur runs
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Teina
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sinking down
through sleep, I find
my mother's face
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Penny
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for the east wind
I open the skylight
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Masa
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blossoms' peak
the Goddess of Mercy
smiles in praise
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Tarô
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soap bubbles fly
and butterflies too
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Mikiko
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