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Yellow-winged Darter (Sympetrum flaveolum): photo by André Karwath, 13 July 2005
On the bamboo
That marks the place of a dead man,
A dragon-fly.
That marks the place of a dead man,
A dragon-fly.
-- Kitô
Broad-bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa), male, Marie Machon Ciney Nature Reserve, Chapois, Belgium: photo by Luc Viatour, 2006
And the sun going in, --
The red dragon-flies.
-- Nikyû
Kirby's Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi), Tsumeb, Namibia: photo by Hans Hillewaert, 7 June 2007
The dragon-fly
Perches on the stick
That strikes at him.
-- Kôhyô
Ruby Meadowhawk Flame Skimmer (Libellula saturata), male: photo by Regular Daddy, May 2008
Dragonfly haiku, tr. R. H. Blyth in Haiku, Vol. IV, 1951
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