the 28th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences
swaying in dreams
Abandon your mother tongue,
all who enter here
midway through life I'm stuck
in a world of one color
Atlas Poetica, 15, 2013
Poetic Musings: Mother and Ocean Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
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mother I never knew,
each time I see the ocean,
each time --
*The Essential Haiku*, 1995
Kobayashi Issa
Commentary: L1 establishes both the emotional atm...
