Best Kanji Poems


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 of man  such miniscule plans to   hold back the tide. 
The throngs, each and all   crawl across the thin skin  of volcanic soil
    or     rise with in     the hump-backed alps of   remnant cones.
Yet, the sea rises to   reclaim its own
scour the pallet of man,   refine, burnish  melt, reform.
With pen and sword   kanji drawn,	 samurai born 
with knife and bone    entrails torn,     honor tested
tested by the hand of He, 
tested and     found worthy.
The children of the Divine Wind
rise above the tsunami, as one, unbowed.

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 List.

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 trellises reminiscent of Kanji on a blank page.
Fragile, frozen, flowers hung decoratively,
from frail clematis twined about cedar posts.

Brittle brown maple leaves, left behind by autumn;
drag branches draped,
as in bridal lace to the frosted tarp;
defying winter to do what fall could not.

Conifers cried under the weighty white down.
Their limbs straining not to crack, surrender,
snapping to attention as the day warms.
The snow plops pleasantly to the ground.

Winter waits patiently as the garden dreams.


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 first sonnet,tell me how is it Rate it out of ten

Few months, till we become unknown strangers
Like a book is unknown to a hoodlum
Memories raise their hand like front benchers
Tears in my eyes should come
Bouncing from department to department
Traveler of a new path like a water droplet
Can’t sail much longer, old river ends
Some notes of love, some of hate
Still for something good something is bad
We will make new friends for sure
Leaving behind the best time we have had
For a life, a boring braggadocio
You may meet each other in your sphere
Remind you, Kanji won’t be there

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 at his desk
...forgive me...

Ancient stokes do see
hands on the brush
playing cards of kanji
writing on my skin
in the After of Life
blood of my ken
saying Time...
comes twice

this is the wHere
ink knotted to ice

tHere...
I saw the cobbler
fixing his shoes
and a chef was shot
but he knew it was true
three men smoking
knew this too
then a baby cried
in the heart of dogfen
and grandmothers dyed
turning boys to men
walking....
into Dragon's den
bare feet in streets
sleeping curbside then

"... we're all in ..."
said the Master's pen...

"Hot hot!..... oh!"
it's the Master's plot!
know! from my neck
it was writ! to show!
show the scrit
of the deck! it's true!

shhh... he said then
"...the card dealt, is u..."
© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.

Little Houses

The                                                                                                                                                                           covering above                                                                                                                                                        where love grows best                                                                                                                                               and roots grow outward                                                                                                                                              Note - Haiqua poem on the Japanese kanji house
© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.


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 down to a morning game
i swore i would take advantage of his saké rejuvenation

i seem to remember
the taste of my wife's lips
so sweet a touch of harmony
quickly replaced by the happy wet kiss of my child
giggling so to almost annoy
this fierce competition

my new pocket watch stating
with such fine western precision
you have time to champion
it's only
8:13

i seem to remember
wind chimes singing with laughter
and graceful chatter
that so rose to cacophony
as i anticipate movement

in this whirl and rash
of mans humanity

i seem to remember
a distant sound of wings
floating across this eastern sky
of eyes squinting to see

and my child suddenly
turning white

the brightest white
the hottest white
the darkest white

i shall never see… 

i can't seem to remember
where i left my soul

i think it's where my shadow
left a halo
burned into the ground
© Shaun Hull  Create an image from this poem.

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, one
of three mountains in Japan
wealth* is what my name translates
Mount Fuji thats me


*Present kanji for the word Fuji is wealth or abundant



Penned by: Seren Roberts

Dated: December 17  2012

Contest name:  Natural Dodoitsu. Contest

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 tiny, blue and gold-faced, birds,
the cream dipped moth .. on an errant breeze.

Close-cropped, clean-cut, trimmed and clipped as their hedges, 
softly edged like the bamboo fenced trees and lawns;
the Japanese glide through their Tokyo
as the kanji glides across the page.

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 the Japanese alps.

Fallen cedar fronds impressed the surface of the path
like kanji on an aged sheet of rice paper.
Further, upward, on the serpentine climb,
water danced, splashed , and roared.
Snow monkeys scampered and chattered
birds sang Heidi tunes.

Gaggles of tourists from about the globe
stared, enthralled, as the red faced denizens
preened; tactfully ignoring
the rude hairless wonders
making fools of themselves
gawking.

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 lusty lyric?

Dear Motherland,
does frolic Kanji dam
basked in mushy currents
wins the mercies of fame yet?

Say nought, dear Motherland,
moments are now cleavages of trance
dark dribbles suck their nectar
puking punctured alakazam

Don't freak out, dear Motherland,
technology's tongue poked had
made callous confetti
of salient streams and their rhythms

Be not so ashamed, dear Motherland,
I heard the nauseating tale of our dam:
he's aged, broken limbs with no staff,
and smothered wits balming his laps.
       '20:04:26:18:40

Note: Of moaning motherland (Nigeria).

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 and gold faced birds,
the cream dipped moth on an errant breeze.

Close cropped- clean, cut trimmed 
and as clipped as their hedges,
edged like the bamboo fenced trees and lawns ;
the Japanese glide through their Tokyo
as the kanji glides across the page.

Komorebi

KOMOREBI

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

Kanji, the Taste of Survival

During war of gunfire and fear,
When the sky made the rain drops into tears.
Our Tamil mothers and sisters stirred the pot with quiet and trembling hands,
Kanji simmered - soft, thin and proud.

No feast of spice, no spice of pure joy,
Just rice and water, salt and a pure pain.
Yet in that round bowl, a pulse of one nation,
Beat gently through hunger and rain.

A scent of rice, the sound of rain,
A powerful prayer whispered through black night.
That one more dawn might be kind,
The one more meal might hold them tight.

Mothers waited by broken walls,
Fathers searched through dust, ash and flames.
Children sipped from rusted tins,
Too young to understand the pain and suffering.

When the war turned into dust,
Silence took the soldier’s roar.
Kanji remained - a taste of memory ,
Of the hearts that starved, yet asked no more.

half way

an unfinished kanji,
      no 
 one can understand it yet-
      h a
     l         f
    w             a
   y                                            through life

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