(Please click image to enlarge and view)chill morning—
we all go to dancing
on the roof of Hell
DW Bender
Winter haiku, January 2008
The above is an "allusory haiku." It refers to the following haiku haiku by master, Kobayashi Issa (1763 -1827):
世の中は地獄の上の花見哉
yo [no] naka wa jigoku no ue no hanami kana
in this world
over Hell, we promenade,
gazing at flowers
Issa
(translation version, mine)
Read more of Issa's haiku at David Lanoue's educational website, haikuguy.com: Haiku of Kobayashi Issa. David has a different translation of Issa's above poem, with notes on its Buddhist meanings.
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