Bronze bells peal loudly
A green vine climbs the brick wall
Three monkeys chatter
A small drum beats time
Acid rain falls in the square
A beggar’s false smile
Author: Yoshii The Bushido Poet
Yoshii the Bushido Poet is a Ninth-level Haiku master who hails from the Ishikawa Prefecture on Japan's "west coast" where his family - descendants of a long line of daimyo poets - still eke out a living salvaging debris from shipwrecks in the Sea of Japan.
