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Elizabeth Jennings
Answers
Answers
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by
Derek Walcott
The Sea Is History
The Sea Is History
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A R Ammons
Their Sex Life
One failure on
Top of another
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
TO THE CHOSEN ONE.
HAND in hand! and lip to lip!
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Jack Kerouac
Haiku
The taste
of rain
—Why kneel?
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Matsuo Basho
A bee
A bee
staggers out
of the peony.
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Louise Bogan
Solitary Observation Brought Back From A Sojourn In Hell
At midnight tears
Run in your ears.
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Yosa Buson
Old well
Old well,
a fish leaps--
dark sound.
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Kobayashi Issa
In spring rain
In spring rain
a pretty girl
yawning.
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Jack Kerouac
Haiku
Birds singing
in the dark
—Rainy dawn.
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Yosa Buson
Sparrow singing
Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
open.
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Kobayashi Issa
Not very anxious
Not very anxious
to bloom,
my plum tree.
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Kobayashi Issa
Napped half the day
Napped half the day;
no one
punished me!
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Barry Tebb
UPON BEING ASKED WHY I AM NOT WRITING
Too much gone wrong –
No Muse, no song.
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Kobayashi Issa
I'm going out
I'm going out,
flies, so relax,
make love.
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Yosa Buson
Evening wind
Evening wind:
water laps
the heron's legs.
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Kobayashi Issa
Don't worry, spiders
Don't worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually.
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Matsuo Basho
Fleas, lice
Fleas, lice,
a horse peeing
near my pillow.
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Yosa Buson
Blow of an ax
Blow of an ax,
pine scent,
the winter woods.
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Emily Dickinson
The competitions of the sky
The competitions of the sky
Corrodeless ply.
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Dejan Stojanovic
Faith
Dust to dust,
Ashes to ashes.
Is that all?
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Matsuo Basho
A cicada shell
A cicada shell;
it sang itself
utterly away.
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Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
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one
l
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Kobayashi Issa
The moon tonight
The moon tonight--
I even miss
her grumbling.
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Kobayashi Issa
Even with insects
Even with insects--
some can sing,
some can't.
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