Tsukeku
: Added Verses
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a second hand,
the cicada,
with little time
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someone enters
the post office
with a lot of books
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painting over
the blackbird's complaint
with morning
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by the window
a swedish doll is displayed
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night thickens . . .
licking her smile from
the bullfrog's tongue
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black strong coffee
is my taste
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was that you, son,
chasing stars with
a butterfly net?
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a straw hat is left
on the doorway
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dark dreams
of crayfish bursting
with summer
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the full moon is reflected
on the watery rice field
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will it hurt you
to lift a leaf while the
ants are working?
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after crying
a girl kisses me
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sunrise . . .
a minnow darts
through my smile
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bread crumbs dropped
from my lunch box
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twilight . . .
a blossom whispering,
"some day"
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pink scarf wrapped
about her white neck
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morning frost . . .
she visits me wearing
a mask
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rose smell of her perfume
floating
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hoarfrost . . .
my shadow tossed in
a pile of laundry
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thinking of him
traveling in China
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mother washes
dishes and onions in
the same breath
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a house cat sleeps
a baseball game on TV
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a harvest moon,
and no one to pluck
it from the sky
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how many times
have you kissed me through the window?
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what are you
thinking, goldfish, from the
inside looking out?
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jazz melody
comforts me in the tea house
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In an earlier issue of Simply Haiku, Ikuyo Yoshimura, professor
of English at Asahi University in Gifu, asked students in one
of her classes to Tsuke-ku, i.e., write verses linking to haiku
sent to her by Robert Wilson, Managing Editor and Owner of Simply
Haiku. Sharing the results with our readers, she explains
that "Tsuke-Ku is a part of Renku and becoming popular among
Japanese haiku poets. It makes deep and wide poetry space, putting
two lines to the first three lines, just like haiku and hai-ga."
In this issue, Prof. Yoshimura herself adds two-line verses to selected
haiku by Robert Wilson.
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