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    Iam done with the monks puzzle already . Any new puzzle posted later?
     
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    No maybe I missed your answer.
     
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    Oops sorry evil mind rants :imp:
     
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    Who is next on the line to present a puzzle? I have an easy one if anyone is starving for puzzles.

    Viswa
     
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    Please post. I promised one but I haven't had time to work on it.
     
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    It is about a person.

    IL Puzzle 04282016.JPG
     
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    The first person that came to mind was
    one who is planning to build a wall now
     
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    Answer to Puzzle #7270

    Kobayashi Issa was a Japanese Poet and a Buddhist priest known for his Haiku Poems and Journal. He is better known as simply Issa , a pen name meaning Cup-of-tea. He is regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with Bashō, Buson and Shiki - "the Great Four, Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki".

    Reflecting the popularity and interest in Issa as man and poet, Japanese books on Issa outnumber those on Buson, and almost equal in number those on Bashō.

    Issa wrote over 20,000 haiku. Despite a multitude of personal trials, his poetry reflects a childlike simplicity, making liberal use of local dialects and conversational phrases, and 'including many verses on plants and the lower creatures. Issa wrote 54 haiku on the snail, 15 on the toad, nearly 200 on frogs, about 230 on the firefly, more than 150 on the mosquito, 90 on flies, over 100 on fleas and nearly 90 on the cicada, making a total of about one thousand verses on such creatures'


    A daughter died young, inspiring Issa to write this

    This dewdrop world --
    Is a dewdrop world,
    And yet, and yet . . .

    His Haiku on Snail

    O snail
    Climb Mount Fuji,
    But slowly, slowly!

    Keywords : tea, dew, snail, monk

    Clue : related to Kaniths Haiku thread, 5-7-5 to represent Haiku

    Source: Wikipedia
     
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