Hattori Poems - Poems about Hattori

...When my mother discussed his story, I was tragically shocked and enraged. How could someone kill a teenager? Assuming Yoshihiro was a trespasser? An exchange student, a young teenager, From Ja......Read the rest...

...HOMELESS POETRY These are poems about the homeless and poems for the homeless. Epitaph for a Homeless Child by Michael R. Burch I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful w......Read the rest...

...These are my modern English translations of haiku about plum blossoms, plums and plum trees. Picking autumn plums my wrinkled hands once again grow fragrant —Yosa Buson, loose translation/inte......Read the rest...

...Haiku Translations II Illuminated by the harvest moon smoke is caught creeping across the water... Hattori Ransetsu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Fanning its tail fla......Read the rest...

...Haiku Translations I As the monks sip their morning tea, chrysanthemums quietly blossom. —Matsuo Basho, loose translation by Michael R. Burch The fragrance of plum blossoms on a foggy path: ......Read the rest...

...These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku. While you decline to cry, high on the mountainside a single stalk of plumegrass wilts. —O......Read the rest...

...Grasses wilt: the braking locomotive grinds to a halt —Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch Oh, fallen camellias, if I were you, I'd leap into the torrent! —Takaha Shugyo, trans......Read the rest...

...« She must suffer to her last breath. (…) They’ll all soon be as Dead as 0-Ren Ishii. » « That woman deserves her Revenge. And we deserve to die. » From « Kill Bill Vol. 1 » I Two French girls in P......Read the rest...