NOTHING OF MATSUO BASHO 1

by AZsacra ZARATHUSTRA   Feb 28, 2007


NIHILBASHO 1

a haiku
by AZsacra ZARATHUSTRA
English translation by Aidar Ismagilov

the dream of butterfly
that butterfly is dead
is reality.

the water in the stem
of orchid will flood
the waterfall of dew...

the rat is soaked
with the gas and burned -
the running fire...

in the bottom of the tear
the scale from wings
of moth.

humble, wasp!
you are refracted as
a bee in dew.

flutters worm...
but seen is
butterfly.

the bell
has tinkled on dead
hawk...

went to pieces
the mummified
grasshopper...

the wind through
the roses... quailed the eagle:
the execution by the petals.

the torn wing
of butterfly has...
never landed.

even supple
boughs are broken...
tenacious snow!

beneath is the heaviness of trap.
above is lightness
of the web.

there is no old pond.
there is no frog that jumped
in water...

in owl's feathers
hides the ant -
it snows!

the shot!
the flower's born
in the center of brow.

petals are bared like teeth -
bristled up with thorns
the she-wolf of roses.

the vortex
of smallest
stings...

the trap
of body's shut -
the bullet's caught!

the leap of flower -
the bee has blossomed out
all of a sudden!

the lonely blind buzzard
is left on winter ground:
the wind is fierce...

no one feels sorry for -
the spider that bit
the child.

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