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Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Summer 2
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about summer, trees, firefly, fireflies, cuckoos, rice fields, rice paddies, bush-clover, Iris, Irises, temple, temples, Japanese culture, light, daylight, lit, boat, boats. Fireflies turn our trees into well-lit lodges. —Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch A noontime firefly, dim by daylight, hides behind a pillar. —Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Firefly watching, the tipsy boatman rocks the...

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Categories: be in the same boat, boat, culture, light, summer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member MISTY Sea Day
I love the blue water, as I am rocked to sleep. The salt air fills my soul, as I dream far away. I am awakening, to a misty sea day. ...

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Categories: be in the same boat, blue, fun, love, magic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member From the Quay
s d u o w i s p s ...

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Categories: be in the same boat, boat, ocean,
Form: Haiku
HOPE OR LOST?
With smiles they waved goodbye barefoot on the soil that raised them carrying nothing but names and the weight of dreams too heavy for home. They spoke of Europe like it was morning on the other side of night and more prayers than food. Is this hope? To trade the peace of home for a foreign land? Or is it loss leaving love behind for...

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Categories: be in the same boat, 12th grade, africa, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Skye Boat Song
The Skye Boat Song from Starz series, "Outlander", a book series written by,: Diana Gabalden Find me a lad that will give me his hand protect me with body and soul Blood of my blood, bone of my bone He vows in the Gailic of old Here is my heart, here is my hand, Here is my...

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Categories: be in the same boat, inspiration, time, travel, true
Form: Lyric



7 B's Of Summer
Spring is sprawling out there somewhere in a Bikini on a Beach drinking Beer toes in the sand glass in hand while snowflakes are falling and winter's still here then when good old sunny summer comes (and swallows do too) oh to go Barefoot in a Boat on the sea Barbecue in the garden play Ball in the park fun in the sun 'til evening twilight lowers the night a curtain...

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Categories: be in the same boat, boat, humorous, sea, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thirty Knots an Hour
His very bones smell of ocean beard lashed with its salt On land, rubber legs awkward ...

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Categories: be in the same boat, boat, identity, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Sailboat
Contest Sponsor: Nette Onclaud "VISIONS OF A VIGNETTE 2"* 6/21/2025 Sailboat Under the white seagulls, yacht's passing wing off the sky, off deep end — sea moves me lagging these feet in water...

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Categories: be in the same boat, angst, boat, deep, introspection,
Form: Verse
The Camel
If a camel is the ship of the desert then speaking equally a ship is the camel of the sea altho' a camel can go without water for up to seven months a ship without water on which to float is neither a barque a barge nor boat as the camel needs food to get over the humps it seems like a dromedary conundrum to...

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Categories: be in the same boat, animal, boat, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marinated
Marines, Marinas… Aquamarine Submarines… ...

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Categories: be in the same boat, boat, sea, word play,
Form: Monoku
Evil Dress in Suits
The morning filled with beauty and luster creeps slowly under the mangrove tree and anchored along the tropical coast where the skies, sea and my lover frequently meet. Something unusual was going on there that disperse tension in the atmosphere and the shrubs planted along the shores breeds a kind of bird that make their...

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Categories: be in the same boat, america, beach, boat, business,
Form: Prose
Red-Crested Sampan
Red-Crested Sampan ? Shariful Alam June 10, 2025 Hudson, New York United States of America ? If by chance we meet again someday, If desire brings us close once more, I’ll breathe deeply again at the foot of the mountain, Smear your gentle gaze across my soul. I’ll cross treacherous roads— carefully, ever so carefully. On a melancholic evening, I’ll go to Silentville. That day, I will become the...

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Categories: be in the same boat, 12th grade, america, bangla,
Form: Free verse
Rude Awakenings
'twas on a matopoeic morn woken by the crack of dawn fell out of bed 'pon my head feeling floored and quite forlorn but yet again all at sea afloat on board a boat by an ocean wave my sleep was wrecked when debunked and then decked ...

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Categories: be in the same boat, boat, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
No Words To Speak
The morning breaks with a solemn look on his face and the sun hiding behind the pregnant clouds suppress the morning with lots of doubt; I couldn’t tell what was going on in his head but he was gathering stones and emptying them on the sprawling lawn, while the universe watches with its open gut...

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Categories: be in the same boat, america, boat, business, care,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tossed on the Wide Seas
“Life is like a ship tossed on the high sea To journey amidst sunshine and wild waves.” - By author. ************************************************************** ...

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Categories: be in the same boat, boat, inspirational, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme

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