Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for death
I heard a fly buzz when I died
Haiku Death Poems
on a journey, ill:
my dream goes wandering
over withered fields (Basho)
illness lingers on and on
till over Basho’s withered fields,
the moon (Gimei)
Shisui’s Enso
Approaching death Shisui’s students asked him to write a death poem. Shisui “grasped his brush, painted a circle, cast the brush aside and died”. This symbol is known as the enso which is prominent in Zen Buddhism and indicates the emptiness of all things.Mary Oliver
When Death Comes