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8 poems of bamboo.
たけ · in 8 of the 701 poems of Sōmokutō
- winter has come — scraps of wood, scraps of bambooOne Man Within
- the temple's bamboo shoot has become a bambooOn the Begging Road
- snapping clean, a bamboo leans among the bambooWalking Mountains, Walking Waters
- alone and hushed, the bamboo shoot becomes bambooWalking Mountains, Walking Waters
- the goodness of the bamboo — dripping in the morning windA Landscape of Weeds
- lined up, the bamboo shoots turning into bambooCold and Alone
- close to my window the shoots become bamboo, day after dayCold and Alone
- stillness — the bamboo shoots have all become bambooCold and Alone
A bamboo shoot becomes bamboo — he wrote that one quiet event year after year. “Stillness — the bamboo shoots have all become bamboo.”