Winter Haiku

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Yosa Buson


行秋や
よき衣きたる
掛り人

Yuku aku ya yoki kinu kitaru kakari udo

跡かくす
師の行方や
暮の秋

Seki kakasu shi no yukigata ya kure no aki

小春凪
真帆も七合
五勺かな

Koharu nagi maho mo shichigau go shyaku kana

子を捨る
薮さへなくて
枯野哉

Ko o sutsuru yabu sahe nakute kareno kana

Winter Haiku

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Allan Persinger


In the departing autumn
wearing expensive clothing--
a freeloading lodger



In which direction 
are my master's hidden footprints--
autumn darkens



Becalmed in the Indian summer
ten men going full sail--
thirty-seven gallons of sake



In a withered field
even the thicket is crying--
an abandoned child