Butterflies

Sesshu Toyo, landscape

A few days ago, I came across the most beautiful piece of poetry from Issa, the Japanese Haiku poet.

窓明て蝶を見送る野原哉

mado akete chô wo mi-okuru no hara kana

window open

a butterfly pulls my eyes

across the field

As I was going through my notebook, I noticed I left a poem about a butterfly which had a similar nature to Issa’s verses but not the exquisite beauty of course. It goes as follows:

butterfly, sweet butterfly
please would you come
into my eyes

mederu ya choh no

me ni iritamoh

愛でるや蝶の　　

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