Haiku

from one tongue
haiku respoke in others
-tangles in the brain

One haiku by Basho and three translators

The butterfly is perfuming

It's wings in the scent

Of the orchid.
-RH Blyth

Orchid breathing

incense into

butterfly wings.
-Stryck

Lady butterfly

perfumes wings by floating

over the orchid.
-Beilenson

Joyfully I took
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