Matsuo Bashô, Haiku

To bird and butterfly

There is an unknown flower:

The autumn sky.

 

Old pond;

A frog jumps in;

Water sound.

 

Harvest moon:

Around the pond I wander,

And the night’s already gone.

 

Of all elegance

The beginning: A rice planting song

In the back country.

 

In perfect stillness

It pierces the rocks:

A cicada’s voice.