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  Master Issa and haikuEsq interrupt your weblogging to remind you to look up and enjoy the Harvest Moon tonight and the next three nights.  We’ll be dedicating a sampling of autumn moon haiku to various weblog friends and colleagues for the next few days (all haiku by master Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, translated by author-poet, professor David G. Lanoue):

 

for Denise Howell at Bag&Baggage

trying and trying
to grasp the harvest moon–
toddler

 

for Wm. J. Dyer of Beldar fame

aiming their butts
at the moon…
rice field geese

 

 

for Martin Grace at a tort et a travers

harvest moon-gazing
priests, samurai
merchants

 

 

for Fed84 at Crime & Federalism  

the thief
is just as he is…
hazy moon

 

 

 

for friend George Wallace of The Fool in the Forest

harvest moon–
on a stone a teacup
filled with sake

 

for B.J. Grenier at BenefitsBlog

harvest moon–
when my heart’s had its fill
it’s dawn

 

for Ken Lammers at CrimLaw

 

the mountain moon              
gives the blossom thief
light

 

for Jerry Lawson at eLawyerBlog

on the moonlit spider web
an evening
cicada

 

for the non-ephmeral Ernie Svenson 

                                                                                

bright moon–
in a little thicket too
a festival!

 

for UCL, the omni-commenting Uncivil Litigator

 

on the river back home too
no doubt…
moon gazing

 

for Tom Mighell at Inter Alia

which of you owns
that red moon
children?

 

for Evan Schaeffer at Underground Notes etc.

the sake gone
time to buckle down
and moon-gaze

 

  for Ted Frank and Walter Olson at Overlawyered

 

harvest moon–
wherever you are
someone’s annoyed

 

overly helpful–
the harvest moon
eclipse critic

 

for the merciful Scheherazade

 

after renting the house
the first thing: moon gazing
twice

 

 

for Nancy Stinson at StarkCountyLawLib

in the harvest moonlight
unruffled, unaffected
scarecrow

 

  for Rick Klau at tins 

harvest moon–
my lap would be a pillow
if my child were here

 

 

for Prof. Bainbridge at his eponymous weblog 

harvest moon–
the peddler selling
eight cent sake

 

 

for Mr. Firefly at Running with Lawyers

hey boatman
no pissing on the moon
in the waves!

 

for Dennis Kennedy of the snazzy new DMK.com

the Man on the Moon
looks to be about
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for John F. Kerry:

harvest moon–
going out
going back in

 

for our haiku President George W. Bush

with the moon out
it seems to shrink back…
little mountain

 

for editor-emeritus Prof. Yabut:

on harvest moon night
greeting the moon…
with snores

 

– click here for over a hundred autumn moon haiku by  Kobayashi Issa 

– many thanks to the translator, author-poet, professor David G. Lanoue