Are the fallen stars
Returning up the sky?-
The dews on the grass.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

I, a moth with no sense of the day,
Dare not fly,
Lest the silence be marred.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

Lord, how long hast thou
To spin the love-threads for dress ?-
The love-threads of rain.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

Oh, my own self in the barge
Laden with the memory of mists,
Gliding down by the life-grey stream.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

Oh, canst thou hear
The love talk of the man-star
With the star- woman?

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

Let day pass,
Let night break
So the frogs sing morning and eve.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

Leaves blown,
Birds flown away.
I wander in and out the Hall of Autumn.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

Is it a fallen leaf?
That's my soul sailing on
The silence of Life.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

Saying something to the rice-plant leaves.
I am knocking at the door of Life, —
Is nobody in?

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones