Basho once wrote the wonderfull haiku of the Old Pond:

Old pond
Frog jumps in
Splash!

This poem was written on a spring day. He was sitting in his riverside house in Edo, bending his ears to the soft cooing of a pigeon in the quiet rain. There was a mild wind in the air, and one or two petals of cherry blossoms were falling gently to the ground. It was the kind of day you often have in late March - so perfect that you want it to last forever. Now and then in the garden was heard the sound of frogs jumping into the water.

This scene inspired me to write the next six haiku.

Spring day
walking along the river
cooing of a pigeon

One day in spring
cherry blossoms fall
quiet rain

In late March
golden flowers bloom
a perfect day

Cooing pigeons
petals of cherry blossom fall
in muddy waters

Splashing waters
cherry blossoms falling gently
the sound of frogs

Silence
petals of cherry blossoms fall
so quiet

Some of these haiku I already published in the haiku-department of our wonderfull wonderhaikuworlds-website. But I thought, 'Why not share all the haiku, which I wrote as inspired on Basho's haiku 'Old Pond'.

For closure another one:

departing
cherry blossom petals fall
so quiet