7 Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

[Rochelle Jewel Shapiro]

How wonderful to read these haikus that pop your eyes and heart with their insights and advice for living!

[Doing What I Do]

For Issa specifically, try here: https://haikuguy.com/issa/

Here are his versions of two of the haiku posted above:

spring begins--

more foolishness

for this fool

my spring

is lucky, lucky!

plum blossom

[Peter Yovu]

Sorry, but it's sentimental translations like these that give haiku a bad name. (And, the plural of haiku is . . . haiku.)

[ONLY POEMS DAILY]

Hi Peter, would love for you to recommend us some solid translations of haiku collections!

[Svetlana Litvinchuk]

Thank you for the catch on the plural.