Famous Short Poems
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by
Beppe Wolgers
Hhh
by
Mother Goose
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
Napped half the day;
no one
punished me!
by
Muhammad Ali
I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
by
Kobayashi Issa
In spring rain
a pretty girl
yawning.
by
Yosa Buson
Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
open.
by
Jack Kerouac
Birds singing
in the dark
—Rainy dawn.
by
Kobayashi Issa
Not very anxious
to bloom,
my plum tree.
by
Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness
by
Barry Tebb
Too much gone wrong –
No Muse, no song.
by
Kobayashi Issa
I'm going out,
flies, so relax,
make love.
by
Kobayashi Issa
How much
are you enjying yourself,
tiger moth?
by
Emily Dickinson
Society for me my misery
Since Gift of Thee --
by
Yosa Buson
Evening wind:
water laps
the heron's legs.
by
Richard Brautigan
Forget love
I want to die
in your yellow hair
by
Matsuo Basho
Fleas, lice,
a horse peeing
near my pillow.