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by Beppe Wolgers

Hhh

by Elizabeth Jennings

 Answers

by Muhammad Ali

Me — wheee!

by Derek Walcott

 The Sea Is History

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 HAND in hand! and lip to lip!

by A R Ammons

 One failure on
Top of another

by Jack Kerouac

 The taste
 of rain
—Why kneel?

by Matsuo Basho

 A bee
staggers out
 of the peony.

by Louise Bogan

 At midnight tears
Run in your ears.

by Yosa Buson

 Old well,
a fish leaps--
 dark sound.

by Kobayashi Issa

 In spring rain
a pretty girl
 yawning.

by Jack Kerouac

 Birds singing
 in the dark
—Rainy dawn.

by Yosa Buson

 Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
 open.

by Kobayashi Issa

 Not very anxious
to bloom,
my plum tree.

by Mother Goose

A sunshiny showerWon't last half an hour.

by Muhammad Ali

I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

by Barry Tebb

 Too much gone wrong – 

No Muse, no song.

by Kobayashi Issa

 Napped half the day;
no one 
punished me!

by Kobayashi Issa

 I'm going out,
flies, so relax,
make love.

by Yosa Buson

 Evening wind:
water laps
 the heron's legs.

by Yosa Buson

 Blow of an ax,
pine scent,
the winter woods.

by Emily Dickinson

 The competitions of the sky
Corrodeless ply.

by Matsuo Basho

 Fleas, lice,
a horse peeing
 near my pillow.

by Kobayashi Issa

 Don't worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually.

by Kobayashi Issa

 The moon tonight--
I even miss
her grumbling.