Haiku Poetry

BASHO,  The Old Pond Haiku Translations:

The old pond,
A frog jumps in
Plop!
(translated by Alan Watts)

                                                 
The old pond
A frog jumped in,
Kerplunk!
(translated by Allen Ginsberg)


The old pond-
A frog leaps in,
And a splash.
(translated by Makoto Ueda)

The quiet pond
A frog leaps in,
The sound of the water.
(translated by Edward Seidensticker)


A frog jumping
Into the stillness.
Of an ancient pond.
(translated by Dorothy Briton)






   Gloom gathers and weighs
   ominously overhead;
   run to safety, now!

                         

                                                            The butterflies dance

                                                            Brilliant colors of rainbows,

                                                            Rippling like water

                                                                                                                 
In the garden
The old man dances
Behind the butterflies
......Basho