They Have No Sense of Personal Space . . .

The morning glory!
It has taken the well bucket,
I must seek elsewhere for water.

- Kaga no Chiyo (woman haiku master)

Winter . . . in Verse

winter rain -
in one room
yesterday, today passes


sleeping alone
awakened
by the frosty night . . .


putting up my hair
no more -
my hands in the kotatsu

                                       - Chiyo-ni

                             Photo Source.

transiency

traces of a dream -
a butterfly
through the flower field

- Chiyo-ni

Donegan, p., Ishibashi, Y. (1998). Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master