Are you the butterfly
And I Chuang Tzu’s
Dreaming heart
Any parallel to Picasso’s one- line composition in poetry? You betcha!
The above Basho represents some of the greatest Japanese spirit!
But any lineage is universal, from China’s Chuang Tzu to the universal spirit of making metaphors, it belongs to ALL HUMANITY–whether it is with a line or with a slight collection of words… .