Haiku on Borrowing by an Author Unknown

A Welsh proverb about borrowing says, "Have a horse of your own and you may borrow another's." Here is a haiku, "a Japanese haiku," the author and the translator of which are unknown, that is also about borrowing.


HAIKU ON BORROWING
by an Author Unknown

A practical bird,
having no tree of his own,
borrows another's.


Source: American actor Robert Urich (1946-2002), who in the role of Spenser quoted the "Japanese haiku" above in a 1988 episode of "Spenser: For Hire" on ABC Television

Robert Urich in 1973