#haiku

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. ↗

— R.H. Blyth

#zen #love

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#nature-s-music #music

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean. ↗

— Jon J. Muth

#neighbors #spelling #zen #ocean

Hi! My little hut Is newly-thatched I see... Blue morning-glories ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#haiku #morning-glories #beauty

This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds. ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#life #poetry #life

These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage. ↗

— R.H. Blyth

#zen #courage

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #beauty #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #grace #haiku

Describe plum-blossoms? Better than my verses...white Wordless Butterflies ↗

— Reikan

#haiku #plum-blossoms #beauty

Inside Jade Hall is a curtain of pearls behind it lives a graceful girl her beauty transcends the immortals her skin is like that of a peach spring mists rise in the east autumn winds stir in the west thirty years from now she’ll look like chewed sugarcane ↗

— Cold Mountain

#beauty

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace. ↗

— Aberjhani

#fear #fearlessness #haiku #meditation #national-poetry-month