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Chiyo-Jo's Haiku

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traces of a dream--a butterfly through the flower-field


Chiyo-jo had nothing to regret about her life that was seventy years of devotion to haiku. Her yearning for a beautiful world was like an unfinished dream. So she compared herself to the butterfly which flew through the flower-field of an unfinished dream.
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