I feel sick, I am
feverish and dream around --
over barren fields.
Ik voel me beroerd,	Mir ist schlecht, fiebrig
koortsig droom ik rond over --	träume ich herum über --
verdorde velden.	verdorrte Felder.

Poem H5244
Amsterdam, 2025-02-10
Seventy years and more (Basho) - 1694
Poem by Basho (1643-1694), on the day of his death, included in the 1986 collection "Japanese Death Poems", compiled by Yoel Hoffmann: "Tabi ni yande / yume wa kareno o / kakemeguru" ("On a journey, ill: / my dream goes wandering / over withered fields")
Collection: Over
Keywords: Disease (serious / deadly), Disease (psycho-soma) 
Tribute to: Basho 

In the crickets' songs
it cannot be heard that they --
will die tomorrow.
Je kunt niet horen	Man hört dem Gesang
aan het lied van de krekel --	der Grille nicht an, dass sie --
dat hij morgen sterft.	morgen sterben wird.

Poem H5243
Amsterdam, 2025-02-10
Eventually, I'll die (Basho) - 1690
Haiku by Basho (1643-1694), from 1690, included in the 1986 collection "Japanese Death Poems", compiled by Yoel Hoffmann: "Yagate shinu / keshiki wa miezu / semi no koe" ("No sign / in the cicada's song / that it will soon be gone")
Collection: SoulSenseSun
Keywords: Flying: grasshopper / cricket, Life: lust (impulse) 
Tribute to: Basho