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Best Kanji Poems

Below are the all-time best Kanji poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of kanji poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Children of the Divine Wind
Many times the ocean 
has saved Nippon,     pearl of the sea,
an oceanic symbiosis  a speck in a fecund see.
The dikes...

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Categories: kanji, history, inspirational, introspection, natural
Form: Free verse



Fragile Rice Papers
fragile rice papers
cling to a thrashed wicker wall
and silent gazes
kanji-stained blots become buds
some bloom into ureshii


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1.  "Ureshii" means happiness (Japanese).
2.  Formerly titled Minamisanriku's...

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Categories: kanji, hope
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Garden Dreams
Tufted white-tops
on pale beige staggered-stalks,
the coneflowers crowns 
dressed the perennial bed;
leaning precariously against
the conical mushroomesque birdbath.

Snow, soft and wet wrapped the grape arbor like ermine;
making...

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Categories: kanji, seasons
Form: Free verse
Sonnet To the Pupil of My School
Hey I wrote a sonnet. The subject is the agony of leaving behind friends after tenth grade,cause i am leaving tenth grade this year.Its my...

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Categories: kanji, goodbye,
Form: Sonnet
Ancient Strokes
forgive me master
while you at your desk
took private your thoughts

i dared trespass...
approaching silent
i slipped your mind
in the rays of sun
i came from behind

the master
and I...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kanji, life
Form: I do not know?



Data
It’s frustrating, isn’t it? 
Creating meta hypotheses based on observations and data, 
but not knowing whether they really fit or not? 
Quantum particles change behavior...

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Categories: kanji, science, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Little Houses
The                        ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kanji, art, beauty, language, love,
Form: Haiku
Ground Zero
i seem to remember
a sunroof sky
full of kanji and silk
wisteria dancing across the wind
my daughter laughing in that so saturated face
as friend and i sit...

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© Shaun Hull  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kanji, imagery, innocence, war, world
Form: Free verse
Sacred Place For Natural Dodoitsu Contest
If you gaze on my beauty
from my snow white head to the
lakes  at my feet you find peace
deep within your soul

I am a sacred place,...

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Categories: kanji, places,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Japanese, If You Please
Beings, precious, small, frail, they
walk at a precise pace, more wary, than gaijin* 
with their large log-like feet,
of the other small precious lives,
the flight of...

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Categories: kanji, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Sotoba Komachi
Sotoba Komachi is a modern Noh play by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). Mishima's play is based on an ancient work by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (1333-1384). The first...

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Categories: kanji, beautiful, beauty, girl, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snow Monkeys / Japan 2008
A cathedral of cedar spires,
branches, lifted upward toward a robins' egg sky,
adorned the gravel trail;
on the way to the hot springs 
deep in the heart
of...

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Categories: kanji, adventure
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Japanese If You Please / 2008
Beings, precious, small, frail, they
walk at a precise pace;
more wary than gaijin with their
large log-like feet,
of the other small precious lives;
the flight of tiny blue...

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Categories: kanji, adventure
Form: Narrative
Yi Feng Xin
Yi feng xìn

Dear Motherland,
hope meagre moments yet dance
throwing taunted thrills
to the fostering figs?

Dear Motherland,
do the sassy streams with flaps
on diminuendo and crescendos' rhythm
yet maintain the...

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Categories: kanji, sad,
Form: Sonnet
Komorebi
KOMOREBI

Summer’s dappled light
Sunlight shining through the trees
A kanji construct...

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Categories: kanji, summer, sun, tree,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs