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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Harold G. Henderson

Loneliness
Language: English  after the English 
No sky at all 
no earth at all — and still 
the snowflakes fall...

Confirmed with Harold Gould Henderson, Intro to Haiku; An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012, p.174


Text Authorship:

  • by Harold G. Henderson , "Loneliness" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist  [text unavailable]
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Based on:

  • a text in Japanese (日本語) by Kajiwara Hashin (b. 1864) [text unavailable]
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This text was added to the website: 2025-07-07
Line count: 3
Word count: 14

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