Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, September 12th 2018 “unfinished”

Seven Sages Of The Bamboo Groove

Dear friends of MLMM,

A new week, a new episode of Heeding Haiku With … I have a very busy week so I have made it myself a little bit easier than I mostly do. Maybe you know the famous classical haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694).

Basho has written around 1000 haiku in his lifetime, all in my opinion wonderful, but recently I ran into an “unfinished” haiku of Basho. I love to challenge you this week to create the third, missing, line and than write a haibun with that completed haiku in it. Your haibun may have a maximum of 150 words (including the completed haiku).

Here is that unfinished haiku:

missing a wife
putting on bamboo grass
——————–

© Matsuo Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)

I will give you my attempt to complete this unfinished haiku by Basho:

missing a wife
the bamboo grass dives under –
wise men’s gathering (*)

(*) refers to the “The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove”, a group of Chinese scholars and poets in the mid third century,very similar with what Henry Thoreau describes in his “Walden, Life in the Woods”.

Have fun!

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About Chèvrefeuille

I am a Dutch haiku poet. And I am the owner and host of the weblog "Carpe Diem, a daily haiku meme" on Blogger (or Blogspot). I am writing haiku since the late eighties and in 2005 I became an international known haiku poet and in 2011 ten of my haiku were included in a worldwide anthology "Spasms of Light". With that anthology I became an even more known haiku poet. In October 2012 I started my daily haiku meme.

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