http://lisapoetry.tribe.net/thread/134f2e3d-af3b-4490-a415-ae1d1dcb7151?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://lisapoetry.tribe.net/thread/134f2e3d-af3b-4490-a415-ae1d1dcb7151#a9d64c3e-3666-4232-bb85-f740c05e3dd8 seemingly still pond encourages wary frog early morning splash Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:00:42 GMT http://lisapoetry.tribe.net/thread/134f2e3d-af3b-4490-a415-ae1d1dcb7151#a9d64c3e-3666-4232-bb85-f740c05e3dd8 nommolucas 2009-07-27T03:00:42Z http://lisapoetry.tribe.net/thread/134f2e3d-af3b-4490-a415-ae1d1dcb7151#e3e71daf-283d-4a00-a6fd-7c59348d2b12 Thought folks might get a kick out of this website: http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm It has 31 different translations of one of Basho's haikus. The range is so big, between the various pieces...you can hardly recognize them as being the same poem. I guess the only way to truly tell is study Japanese! take care, Jon Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:00:46 GMT http://lisapoetry.tribe.net/thread/134f2e3d-af3b-4490-a415-ae1d1dcb7151#e3e71daf-283d-4a00-a6fd-7c59348d2b12 Jon 2009-06-10T10:00:46Z