laughALONG! 23rd May
- Muskaan Ahuja
- May 23, 2023
- 1 min read
A TUESDAY FEATURE
host: Muskaan Ahuja, Lakshmi Iyer
guest editor: K. Ramesh
a turnip puller
points the way to the road
with a turnip
--- Issa (translation by R B Blyth)
I love the humor in this poem! Please share your views on this haiku and add a haiku which you have read that made you laugh ☺
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Nice gentle humour, Ramesh.
Mine here:
evening assembly
a bulbul sings
our prayer song
.
empty cricket field ghosts of yesterday's oohs and aahs ??
Issa paints such a lovely picture.
Interesting — the version that I knew was a daikon radish, so perhaps westerners don’t know what that is. either way the joke is a really good one
#1
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Liked the humor. So too the style of Issa is contagious. Trying one
.
sticky summer
scratching her back
with a chapati roller
.
Feedback please
A gust of spring wind —
unhappily—lifts the skirts
of the roof thatcher
He glares back at me
with an ugly, surly face,
this old pond frog
If you are kindly,
they will shit all over you,
happy young sparrows
Kobayashi Issa
translated by Sam Hamill