Zen Haiku's of Zen Master Issa

• Not yet having become a buddha,
  This ancient pine tree,
  Idly dreaming - Issa
   
• I have nothing at all --
  But this tranquility!
  This coolness! – Issa
   
• Listen,
  All creeping things --
  The bell of transience. – Issa
   
• From the white dewdrops,
  Learn the way
  To the pure land. – Issa
   
• Heedless of the dew
  That marks our closing day,
  We bind ourselves to others. – Issa
   
• Life is a dewdrop,
  Yes i am perfectly convinced.
  Life is a dewdrop,
  And yet and yet.... – Issa
   
• Lost in bamboo,
  But when moon lights --
  My house. – Issa
   
• The youngest nightingale that
  Can rejoice
  Calls to its parents in a yellow
  Voice. - Issa