Haiku: Tokugawa Period

The summer is speeding up in its arrival and I'm finding myself with more free time than usual. To get back on track in sharing more Haiku, here are two more.

If the times were good,                                      Yo ga yokuba
I'd say, "Sit down!–one more of you!"              mo hitotsu tomare
flies around my food.                                         meshi no hae.


I found this one oddly cute, even though it's about flies circling in on the food that is being eaten.
This last one is also about insects, but it is less unappealing.


In its eye                                                           Toyama no  
the far-off hills are mirrored–                            medama ni utsuru
dragonfly!                                                         tombo kana.

Scrolls of The Tale of Genji, Bamboo River. Source:
http://dailylife-tokyo.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

*From the Anthology of Japanese Literature compiled and edited by Donald Keene.