Fallen leaves! Nay, spirits?
Shall I go downward with thee
By a stream of fate?

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

Full of faults, you say.
What beauty in repentance!
Tears, songs . . . thus life flows

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

To become tree-man,
Oh, songs given back by the winds !
What joy of no-man.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

"Ghost of my soul," I shout,
"That cries only to curse me?"
Tip, tip, tip . . . thus the rain falls.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

But the march to life . . .
Break song to sing the new song !
Clouds leap, flowers bloom.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

The silence-leaves fallen from Life,
Older than dream or pain, —
Are they my passing ghost?

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

Song of sea in rain,
Voice of the sky, earth and men!
List, song of my heart.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

A breeze forgotten by life,
Steps from thought to thought.
Oh, peace gained by hushed prayer!

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones

Bits of song . . . what else?
I, a rider of the stream.
Lone between the clouds.

From Yone Noguchi's book Japanese Hokkus for Haiku Bones