Sunday Haiku

Basho

Here's some classic haiku, all taken from The World of Zen (Vintage, 1960), edited, with an introduction, by Nancy Wilson Ross.

Not a single stone 

To throw at the dog.

The wintry moon.

Striking the fly

I hit also

A flowering plant.

Evening rain.

The banana leaf

Speaks of it first.

Sticking on the mushroom

The leaf

Of some unknown tree.