(Source: shhhh……………..
Originally uploaded by Funny Fish)

Snow is falling…
by Matsuo Basho [1688]
translated by Lucien Stryk
and Takashi Ikemoto

Come, let’s go
snow-viewing
till we’re buried.

Wikipedia has an alternate translation:

iza saraba / yukimi ni korobu / tokoromade

now then, let’s go out
to enjoy the snow… until
I slip and fall!

Neither makes perfect sense to me in english, and one might even be a second verse to the other, so here’s my own version:

Hurry, let’s go now
play in the snow, until I
lay covered below

Buried has so many meanings…hard to find a better turn of phrase

This also is a test of the flickr plugin…