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Matsuo Basho
The oak tree
The oak tree:
not interested
in cherry blossoms.
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by
Yosa Buson
A bat flits
A bat flits
in moonlight
above the plum blossoms.
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by
Kobayashi Issa
Blossoms at night
Blossoms at night,
and the faces of people
moved by music.
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by
Kobayashi Issa
What a strange thing
What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
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by
Kobayashi Issa
New Year's Day
New Year's Day--
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average.
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by
Kobayashi Issa
In these latter-day
In these latter-day,
Degenerate times,
Cherry-blossoms everywhere!
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by
Yosa Buson
White blossoms of the pear
White blossoms of the pear
and a woman in moonlight
reading a letter.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Best Gains -- must have the Losses' Test --
Best Gains -- must have the Losses' Test --
To constitute them -- Gains --
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by
Robert Herrick
HIS LOSS
All has been plunder'd from me but my wit:
Fortune herself can lay no claim to it.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Blossoms will run away,
Blossoms will run away,
Cakes reign but a Day,
But Memory like Melody
Is pink Eternally.
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by
Robert Herrick
LOSS FROM THE LEAST
Great men by small means oft are overthrown;
He's lord of thy life, who contemns his own.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Of so divine a Loss
Of so divine a Loss
We enter but the Gain,
Indemnity for Loneliness
That such a Bliss has been.
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by
Emily Dickinson
By Chivalries as tiny,
By Chivalries as tiny,
A Blossom, or a Book,
The seeds of smiles are planted --
Which blossom in the dark.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Herein a Blossom lies --
Herein a Blossom lies --
A Sepulchre, between --
Cross it, and overcome the Bee --
Remain -- 'tis but a Rind.
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by
Anais Nin
Risk
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom.
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by
Carl Sandburg
Losses
I HAVE love
And a child,
A banjo
And shadows.
(Losses of God,
All will go
And one day
We will hold
Only the shadows.)
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by
Friedrich von Schiller
Love And Desire
Rightly said, Schlosser! Man loves what he has; what he has not, desireth;
None but the wealthy minds love; poor minds desire alone.
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by
Wang Wei
Random Poem
You also come from my home town,
You must know all the home town news.
At dawn, before the silken window,
Is it too cold for plum blossom to show?
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Emily Dickinson
Spring comes on the World --
Spring comes on the World --
I sight the Aprils --
Hueless to me until thou come
As, till the Bee
Blossoms stand negative,
Touched to Conditions
By a Hum.
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by
Tupac Shakur
Ambition Over Adversity
Take one's adversity
Learn from their misfortune
Learn from their pain
Believe in something
Believe in yourself
Turn adversity into ambition
Now blossom into wealth
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Robert Burns
473. On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn
FROM the white-blossom’d sloe my dear Chloris requested
A sprig, her fair breast to adorn:
No, by Heavens! I exclaim’d, let me perish, if ever
I plant in that bosom a thorn!
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Emily Dickinson
Finding is the first Act
Finding is the first Act
The second, loss,
Third, Expedition for
The "Golden Fleece"
Fourth, no Discovery --
Fifth, no Crew --
Finally, no Golden Fleece --
Jason -- sham -- too.
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Carl Sandburg
Spanish
FASTEN black eyes on me.
I ask nothing of you under the peach trees,
Fasten your black eyes in my gray with the spear of a storm.
The air under the peach blossoms is a haze of pink.
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Emily Dickinson
Trusty as the stars
Trusty as the stars
Who quit their shining working
Prompt as when I lit them
In Genesis' new house,
Durable as dawn
Whose antiquated blossom
Makes a world's suspense
Perish and rejoice.
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Carl Sandburg
June
Paula is digging and shaping the loam of a salvia,
Scarlet Chinese talker of summer.
Two petals of crabapple blossom blow fallen in Paula's
hair,
And fluff of white from a cottonwood.
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