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by Beppe Wolgers

Hhh

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by Mother Goose

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by Elizabeth Jennings

 Answers

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by Muhammad Ali

Me — wheee!

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by Derek Walcott

 The Sea Is History

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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 HAND in hand! and lip to lip!

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by A R Ammons

 One failure on
Top of another

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by Jack Kerouac

 The taste
 of rain
—Why kneel?

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by Matsuo Basho

 A bee
staggers out
 of the peony.

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by Louise Bogan

 At midnight tears
Run in your ears.

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by Muhammad Ali

I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

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by Kobayashi Issa

 Napped half the day;
no one 
punished me!

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by Yosa Buson

 Old well,
a fish leaps--
 dark sound.

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by Kobayashi Issa

 In spring rain
a pretty girl
 yawning.

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by Jack Kerouac

 Birds singing
 in the dark
—Rainy dawn.

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by Yosa Buson

 Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
 open.

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by Kobayashi Issa

 Not very anxious
to bloom,
my plum tree.

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by Barry Tebb

 Too much gone wrong – 

No Muse, no song.

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by Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings

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by Emily Dickinson

 Society for me my misery
Since Gift of Thee --

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by Kobayashi Issa

 How much
are you enjying yourself,
tiger moth?

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by Kobayashi Issa

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

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by Yosa Buson

 Evening wind:
water laps
 the heron's legs.

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by Richard Brautigan

 Forget love 
I want to die 
in your yellow hair

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by Katharine Tynan

Please give the review on the poem '
 Any Woman'

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