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Hattori Poems - Poems about Hattori


Homeless Poetry
...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......

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Categories: hattori, america, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Plum Blossom Haiku I
...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......

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Categories: hattori, autumn, love, nature, spring,
Form: Haiku



Haiku Translations Ii
...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......

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Categories: hattori, dark, moon, nature, night,
Form: Haiku
Haiku Translations I
...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: ......

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Categories: hattori, animal, flower, moon, nature,
Form: Haiku
Ancient Haiku
...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......

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Categories: hattori, culture, imagery, inspiration, international,
Form: Haiku



Haiku Translations of the Oriental Masters
...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......

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Categories: hattori, animal, beauty, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Reluctant Sayonara
...« 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......

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Categories: hattori, death, november, paris,
Form: Elegy

Book: Reflection on the Important Things