Showing posts with label Mother Earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mother Earth. Show all posts

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Basho Revisited, early dawn

Basho was very interested in Zen-Buddhism and in his haiku you can read the Zen if you want to read that of course. Zen is in my soul. I am not a Buddhist, but I appreciate the spiritual thoughts of Buddhism.

In the following haiku by Basho he longs to see the face of a god in a flower. I think one can see a god in everthing around us and in all humans. I can see the face of god in the flowers, the trees, the birds, the insects, the animals and also in humans. I belief that in everything and everyone God is present.

nao nu tashi   hana ni ake yuku    kami no kao

still I want to see
in a flower the face of a god
early dawn


It's almost a sin to write a new haiku with this one as inspiration, because I love this haiku by Basho. It's not a well known one but surely it's one of his most wonderfully crafted haiku.

in the moonlight
I can see the mysterious face
of Mother Earth




Sincerely,