going beyond even
the art of wind and moon:
peony blossoms.
~Basho
(translated by David Landis Barnhill)
Week 18
April 29 to May 05 is the 18th week of 2024. This week, we are in the Solar Term of Grain Rain (Apr 20 -May 04), and the micro-seasons of “Peonies Bloom” (Apr 30 - May 04).
Basho, Issa, Buson, and Reichhold wrote the poems selected for this week.
You can read the full post and all the reader submissions for this week’s prompt on the blog.
