Poets Keening in Harmony

Wolves
are keening in harmony—
this snowy evening
—Joso

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Give me back my dream!
a crow has wakened me
to misty moonlight
—Onitsura

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Running across the altar
and stealing a chrysanthemum—
the temple rat
—Takamasa

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Lightning!
Fleeing up the wall,
the legs of a spider
—Kicho

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Down a paulawnia tree
the rain comes trickling
across a cicada's belly
—Baishitsu

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Lead him slowly!
the horse is carrying
the spring moon
—Watsujin

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Tranquility—
the voice of the cicada
seeps into the rocks
—Basho

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—Medusa

Medusa encourages poets of all ilk and ages to send their POETRY, PHOTOS and ART, as well as announcements of Northern California poetry events to kathykieth@hotmail.com (or snail ‘em to P.O. Box 762, Pollock Pines, CA 95726) for posting on this daily Snake blog. Rights remain with the poets. Previously-published poems are okay for Medusa’s Kitchen, as long as you own the rights. (Please cite publication.)

Today's poems are from A Haiku Menagerie,
ed. by Stephen Addiss with Fumiko and Akira Yamamoto, Weatherhill, Inc., 1992