Most popular haiku poets are from Japan. They are known as "the Great Four". They are Kobayashi Issa, Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson and Masaoka Shiki. Their work is the best work for traditional haiku poems. A poet can review the haiku poems to become familiar with this type of poems.
Matsuo Basho is one of the greatest haiku poets.
Three examples of haiku poems form Matsuo Basho are provided below:
Example 1:
“An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.”
Example 2:
“Autumn moonlight-
a worm digs silently
into the chestnut.”
Example 3:
“In the twilight rain
these brilliant-hued hibiscus -
A lovely sunset.”
Yosa Buson is the master of a haiku poem and he is the painter also.
Three most popular haiku poem of Yosa Buson are provided below:
Example 1:
“A summer river being crossed
how pleasing
with sandals in my hands!”
Example 2:
“Light of the moon
Moves west, flowers' shadows
Creep eastward.”
Example 3:
“In the moonlight,
The color and scent of the wisteria
Seems far away.”
One of the popular haiku poets is Kobayashi Issa.
Most popular three examples of haiku poems from Kobayashi Issa are provided below:
Example 1:
“O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!”
Example 2:
“Trusting the Buddha, good and bad,
I bid farewell
To the departing year”
Example 3:
“Everything I touch
with tenderness, alas,
pricks like a bramble.”
Masaoka Shiki is a well-known haiku poet. He wrote a few haiku poems in modern style. Some of the popular haiku poems of Masaoka Shiki is provided below:
Example 1:
“I want to sleep
Swat the flies
Softly, please.”
Example 2:
“After killing
a spider, how lonely I feel
in the cold of the night!”
Example 3:
“For love and for hate
I swat a fly and offer it
to an ant.”
Example 4:
“A mountain village
under the piled-up snow
the sound of water.”
Example 5:
“Night; and once again,
the while I wait for you, cold wind
turns into rain.”
Example 6:
“The summer river:
although there is a bridge, my horse
goes through the water.”
Example 7:
“A lightning flash:
between the forest trees
I have seen water.”
Natsume Soseki is one of the popular novelists who wrote many novels and haiku poems.
Few popular haiku poems from Natsume Soseki are provided below:
Example 1:
“The lamp once out
Cool stars enter
The window frame.”
Example 2:
“Plum flower temple:
Voices rise
From the foothills”
Example 3:
“The crow has flown away:
swaying in the evening sun,
a leafless tree.”
Most of the modern poets are not follow the five-seven-five pattern. American poets recognize this revolution. But every modern poet maintains several principles of haiku poets.
Some of the popular modern haiku poems are provided below:
Example 1:
“From across the lake,
Past the black winter trees,
Faint sounds of a flute.”
- Richard Wright
Example 2:
“Lily:
out of the water
out of itself”
- Nick Virgilio
Example 3:
“ground squirrel
balancing its tomato
on the garden fence”
- Don Eulert
Example 4:
“Nightfall,
Too dark to read the page
Too cold.”
- Jack Kerouac
Example 5:
“Just friends:
he watches my gauze dress
blowing on the line.”
- Alexis Rotella
Example 6:
“A little boy sings
on a terrace, eyes aglow.
Ridge spills upward.”
- Robert Yehling
Example 7:
“meteor shower
a gentle wave
wets our sandals”
- Michael Dylan Welch
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