Haiku - Fresh Summer

 

山光忽西落，
池月漸東上。
夏日南亭懷辛大
孟浩然
Suddenly the sun dips behind the mountains in the West
Above the pond the moon is rising slowly in the East
Thinking of Xin Da in the South Pavilion on a Summer Day
Meng Hao Ran

Stillness

Under the milkwood tree

Just enough 

 

Fair weather clouds

Sun, sweat and chat

At the beer garden 

 

Off work

Sun and a light breeze

No vacation yet 

 

The cleaning woman

Always airs the room

Good morning 

 

Lazy afternoon

Then listening to crickets

And the moon is late

 

Summer breeze

And the pleasing shade

But no crickets  

 

Graveyard

Bell shadow on white wall

And an echo 

 

The good news

Fishmonger don’t use

To wrap fish 

 

Above the meadow

Red kite and black crows

Posting tweets 

 

Parading magpie

Wind turning papers

This park is closed 

 

Bird crossing

My garden

Why so silent? 

 

Summer rain

Rivulet running

Frog jumps, too 

 

Green crepuscule

Morning is still drowsy

But the cuckoo sings 

 

Bright moon

A freight plane's passing

Shadow hits me 

 

Selected for Mainichi Japan by Dhugal J. Lindsay 

 

Swallows hunting

In the urban canyons

No flight recorder

Meng Hao Ran (孟浩然) lived about 689/691-740. The anthology „Three Hundred Tang Poems“ shows 15 of his poems. His main topic in poetry and painting has been nature. In this way he has influenced later poets and painters.