Sitting in a palace
a distant frog
listening to night
~Buson
(translated by Allan Persinger)
May 06 to May 12 is the 19th week of 2024. This week, we are in the Solar Term of Beginning of Summer (May 05- May 20), and the micro-seasons of “Frogs Start Singing” (May 05 - May 09) and “Worms Surface” (May 10 - May 14).
Basho, Issa, Buson, Sokan, Reichhold, and Kerouac 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.
http://seasonwords.com/2024/05/10/week-19-frogs-start-singing/