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NOTHING OF MATSUO BASHO 1

by  azsacra

Posted: Sunday, April 29, 2007
Word Count: 227




NIHILBASHO 1

a freehaiku
by AZsacra ZARATHUSTRA
English translation by Aidar Ismagilov


the dream of butterfly
that butterfly is dead
is reality


the water in the stem
of orchid will flood
the waterfall of dew


the rat is soaked
with the gas and burned -
the running fire


in the bottom of the tear
the scale from wings
of moth


humble, wasp!
you are refracted as
a bee in dew


flutters worm...
but seen is
butterfly


the bell
has tinkled on dead
hawk


went to pieces
the mummified
grasshopper


the wind through
the roses...quailed the eagle:
the execution by the petals!


the torn wing
of butterfly has...
never landed


even supple
boughs are broken...
tenacious snow!


beneath is the heaviness of trap.
above is lightness
of the web


there is no old pond.
there is no frog that jumped
in water


in owl's feathers
hides the ant -
it snows!


the shot!
the flower's born
in the center of brow


petals are bared like teeth -
bristled up with thorns
the she-wolf of roses


the vortex
of smallest
stings


the trap
of body's shut -
the bullet's caught!


the leap of flower -
the bee has blossomed out
all of a sudden!


the lonely blind buzzard
is left on winter ground:
the wind is fierce


no one feels sorry for -
the spider that bit
the child