Japanese poem, Haiku

Hello ! Do you know Japanese poetry Haiku?
First EU President Herman Van Rompuy(Bergian) recently published his haiku books in Dutch.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/7595054/Herman-Van-Rompuy-publishes-haiku-poems.html

You can see his Haiku collections here.

https://twitter.com/RompuyJP
(As yiu can understand dutch, you can probably enjoy his haiku)

He respects haiku master Basho Matsuo(1644-1694).

"Haiku" is a japanese three-line poem. with seventeen syllables in the pattern of 5-7-5,including a seasonal word in it.

Poet Basho writes in his book " Narrow road to a Far Province."
:
The passing days and monthes are eternal travellers in time.
The years that come and go, are travellers too.
Life itself is a journey.

I like his poems like these:

Gathering the rain of summer,
How flows swiftly,
The river Mogami

Coming by a mountain path,
Somehow pretty and modest
Little violets

Enja made a this song inspire by this Baso’ poem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXD21CaN0n4


Sick on the journy,
My dreams wander
in the wiithered field


Stormy sea,
Stretching over Sado Island,
The Milky Way


He found the never ending eternaty in the nature with the contrast of an instant.

☆　Four Basho Haiku: III. Stillness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKqXEYs5ll4


Mata ne , Take care