Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Life 1
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about clouds, geese, departing, empty nests and huts, lonely, loneliness, drinking alone, sake, longing, loss, death, hawks, the moon, Japanese culture.
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Categories:
begonia, culture, death, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Haiku
Under the Weather
...Dr. Foster lived in old fashioned London, and was content to stay there;
As red roses are content being caressed, by the wind from everywhere.
Dr. Foster loved his daily routine, like the...
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Categories:
begonia, beauty, fantasy, home, london,
Form: Couplet
Endeavors
...Arthur Nelson was a curious, studious fellow, like pearly moon glowing,
Ten years old and spectacled, for all is adventure, when you're growing.
Arthur lived in a one story home, with his...
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Categories:
begonia, endurance, fantasy, inspiration, nature,
Form: Couplet
HEART OF THE BEGONIA
...Heart of the Begonia is what my soul has seen.
As thee is whom I have seen.
Oh, what an art of the divine in it!
As if I was enchanted by it.
Heart of the begonia, what a beauty of your existen...
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Categories:
begonia, inspirational love, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Silver and Gold
...Johnny MacAlister was six-years-old, young enough still for wishes,
Baby sister, Rosie, was all of three, all giggling and adorable kisses.
With fond, indulgent parents, the family was co...
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Categories:
begonia, birthday, children, fantasy, fun,
Form: Couplet
Slipped Away
...Sandra Hall was a college student, like experience gained from learning,
Living in the house of her parents; with love like red, fall leaves returning.
Sandra was in her final year of sch...
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Categories:
begonia, boat, dream, fantasy, friend,
Form: Couplet
My Brother, John
...My brother, John, was older than me; and I had ever looked up to him,
As a golden sun seems always with you, but comes and goes at whim.
My brother, John, taught me to roller skate, and h...
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Categories:
begonia, beauty, color, fantasy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Love Garden
...I love your calla Lily lips
Engaging emerald eyes
Heavy hibiscus hips
Creative crimson cries
Falling for daisy yellow you
like blueberry cool rain
Nothing lavender to loose
Always ambrosi...
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Categories:
begonia, appreciation, art, flower,
Form: Rhyme
What are we?
...As the midnight
sun cries sweet honey,
the mourning moon
croons caramelized deceit,
like toffee-speckled leaves,
whistling bewitching myths,
seducing silenced silhouettes,
eng...
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Categories:
begonia, deep,
Form: Free verse
Through it all
...To the lily moon that
never forsakes me~
amidst the cruel constellations
that left me stranded in
a melancholic maze
of rain-kissed memories.
I’ll write this prose for you,
on periwin...
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Categories:
begonia, emotions,
Form: Romanticism
Ambrosial Aphrodite
...O beloved chevalier,
cloaked in shimmering champagne armor,
tonight I long to feel your sultry skin,
embroidered with emerald embellishments
and twinkling teal topaz,
tailored to tempt,
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Categories:
begonia, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
Flower Footles
...A Rose
Most chose
A Lily
So frilly
A Peony
Bee honey
A Hibiscus
Bloom discus
A Lilac
Purple crackerjack
A Daffodil
Yellow thrill
A Wave Petunia
Will rave Ah
A Begonia
So ...
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Categories:
begonia, beauty, flower,
Form: Footle
The Begonia Corridor
...though not much light
your Begonia corridor
we did much relish...
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Categories:
begonia, love,
Form: Senryu
Colourful
...COLOURFUL
Allium is raising king Spring’s alarm
Easter red bud is shining in red glow.
Freesia sending descent scent to flow.
Crocus is spreading Spring’s first ...
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Categories:
begonia, color,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Misplaced In Maroon Mists
...I’m feral like a fox
misplaced in the
maroon mists
of wilderness,
only found in
woeful woodland.
My skin is blanketed
in crimson balmy
hyacinth feathers
from a
forsaken rainforest.
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Categories:
begonia, confidence, courage, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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