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Matsuo Basho - A bee

A bee
staggers out
    of the peony.

Added: on May 23rd, 2006 at 12:53 PM | Viewed: 7832 times | Comments (2)


A bee - Comments and Information

Poet: Matsuo Basho
Poem: A bee
Volume: The Essential Haiku
Year: Published/Written in 1994

Comment 2 of 2, added on June 7th, 2008 at 10:52 AM.

I like this translation better and it makes more sense as a poem to me. The Haas translation seems too cryptic for my ear.
Ray

How reluctantly
the bee emerges from the deep
within the peony


Ray Rasmussen from Canada
Comment 1 of 2, added on May 23rd, 2006 at 12:53 PM.

WHERE THE #@!* IS THE FREAKING POEM??!!

annonymas from United States

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