Haiku 9: This is our night!

Here is today's haiku:

痩藪も己が夜也なく蛙

And in romaji:

yase yabu mo ono ga yoru nari naku kawazu

And English: "Even in a scrawny clump of grass, "This is our night!" cry the frogs."

This is a haiku by Issa, one of his many sympathetic poems about the frogs. Of course, our world, like the frog's scrawny clump of grass, is ultimately just a scrawny place, a place that won't last long, but we still claim the time as ours, as the frogs claim the night.

art by Kawanabe Kyōsai

My vocabulary for today:

蛙
かわず
"frog"