One of the pleasures of blogging is that you find so many great blogs of great variety, anything can be done well, it seems, if it is done with involvement and enthusiasm.
I followed Son Rivers to this blog where I found Derek at TOBIKOMU – 365 DAYS OF OVERDOING BASHO, who keeps working on a haiku by Basho,
which he literally translates as
old pond--ah!
frog jumps in
water's sound
and reworks it every day, the last five posts being:
small grove's
pond--
a frog's leap then
water's sound
quiet pond--
a frog slips in
the sound of water
Old pond here
a small frog leaps into it.
Water sounds.
pond
frog
slurp
This old pond--
a small frog leaps in
water sounds.
Great concept. Wish him well.
And, I hope he gets to the day when he can say wholeheartedly:
Not a plop-
this unwet frog hops about
on the rippling pond.
Or something like that.
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