At Carpe Diem write an inspired haiku from this one by Kikaku:
how I wish to call
a white crane from Fukei,
but for this cold rain
Don’t miss to visit Kristjaan’s wonderful page on the background to this haiku. I’m travelling and will be going back tonight.
Crane and Wave by Hiroshige
mourning wasting
listening to labored breath
leaves like crane in fall
August 15, 2013
Björn Rudbergs writings 
This feels like wordplay but not sure it was intentional. Leaves in fall… beautiful haiku.
Nicely written haiku. It’s a scenery which I can see right now here on the ward were I am at work. A very ill patient with labored breath. Her family would have like to stay, but that breath made them very anxious and blocked their mourning proces. So she is now alone on her ward room and I go very often look at her. The same breath every time, maybe it’s a bit flatter then earlier this nightshift.
Sorry, I was on a roll with this comment. A well done haiku inspired on the one by Kikaku. Thank you Bjorn for sharing.
Thank you, very inspire haibun Kristjaan 🙂
Yes! I have been at many deathbeds and I like the idea of the breath leaving like a crane in fall!
Really well done Bjorn. I read the article by Kristjaan, thank you.
And when the crane is gone…