New Year's Day Poem by Kobayashi Issa

New Year's Day

Rating: 3.3


New Year's Day--
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average.


Translated by Robert Hass

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Aarzoo Mehek 27 December 2015

I feel the same... I wish this coming year bring more joys and happiness in everyone's life.

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M Asim Nehal 27 December 2015

Very nice poem. I liked it.

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Kim Barney 27 December 2015

You are right, Susan. The poem in the original language probably had a different number of syllables. I really do wonder what the original said. The translation of that third line seems somewhat strange to me.

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Susan Williams 27 December 2015

There are [a] different kinds of haiku- they're not all 5-7-5, and [b] translation into English mangles many good haiku! so just go with the flow and wonder what the original said

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Neran Sati 27 December 2015

that ever present contrast of outside - inside, penned by haiku master

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Ramesh T A 27 December 2015

That is the beginning for a grand finale at the end!

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