"My open Window"

De dentro para fora como se a janela fosse minha, Hermitage Museum, Amesterdão

blue morning glory

head bent in contemplation

of the coming dawn

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this hazy morning

the rooster looks puzzled at

my open window

Eduardo Ribeiro, Among the wasps silence, twelve dozen haiku by a portuguese bum, p. 8 e 12.

Narcisos!

Ao Eduardo porque hoje é dia 17 de Julho.

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Caravaggio, Narciso, 1594-96
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Óleo sobre tela, 110 × 92 cm, Galeria Nacional de Arte Antiga, Roma

three narcissus _ one
standing by the pond and one
its own reflection

four narcissus _ both
drift on the water away
from their reflections

one narcissus still
by the pond alone he stands
withering slowly

by the pond there are
no narcissus now _ only
hazy reflections

Eduardo Ribeiro, Among the wasps silence, twelve dozen haiku by a portuguese bum

Among the Wasps silence...!

Amongs the wasps silence, twelve dozen haikuby a portuguese bum , é um livro editado on-line na SMASHWORDS EDITION, por Eduardo Ribeiro. Contem haikus em inglês um género literário que estudou em Bashô e outros poetas japoneses.

"The Portuguese were the first westerners to contact extensively with Japanese culture and society (at Tanegashima in 1543), and a mutual attraction still exists.
My love of Japanese art is some forty years old. Soon in my life I was attracted by the very complex apparent simplicity in ikebana, origami, sumi-e and, of course, haiku".
Eduardo Ribeiro