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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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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