Never forget

by Kobayashi Issa

English version by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
Original Language Japanese

Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.

-- from Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter, Translated by Lucien Stryk / Translated by Takashi Ikemoto

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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

This is one of those rare haiku that I love one moment and hate the next. I guess it depends on whether or not I remember to gaze at flowers in the moment...

Have a beautiful, flower-filled weekend!








Never forget