old pond (add-on game)

[rayheinrich]

Are we playing off of basho?
Basho:

"A silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond.
Splash! Silence again."

Yes. (Though I prefer to think we're playing with him.)

P.S. Much prefer Robert Hass's translation:

The old pond —
a frog jumps in,
sound of water.

or James Kirkup's

pond
frog
plop!

or Alfred H. Marks'

There once was a curious frog
Who sat by a pond on a log
And, to see what resulted,
In the pond catapulted
With a water-noise heard round the bog.


P.P.S. And many others can be found here:

Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku (Thirty-one Translations and One Commentary)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passag...o-frog.htm