cats short and sweet: haiku

Old haiku in their original Japanese (note the 5-7-5 syllable arrangement), and in translation:

Uki tomo ni
Kamarete neko no
Sora nagame

     (poet: Kyorai)
     Bit by a sorry mate, the cat
     Intently gazes at the sky.

*

Uki koi ni

Taete ya neko no

Nusumi-gui

     (poet: Shiko)

     Weary perhaps of dolorous love,

     The cat has stolen a bit to eat.

*

Neko no koi
Shote kara naite
Aware nari

     (poet: Yaha, 1663-1740)
     A cat's amours :—from the beginning
     He caterwauls; he's to be pitied.

- from Chamberlain, Basil Hall, 1850-1935. Bashō And the Japanese Poetical Epigram. [S.1.: s.n., 1902, passim.