Hokusai Poems - Poems about Hokusai

...Am I really this old, so many ghosts beckoning? —Michael R. Burch Sleepyheads! I recite my haiku to the inattentive lilies. —Michael R. Burch Stillness: the sound of petals drifting dow......Read the rest...

...These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others. Am I really this old, so many ghosts beck......Read the rest...

...("Glimpsing Hokusai", 2017, original encaustic) The Risk Is All The wages of sin is death. And yet so many flirt with it. People who think they can maintain the upper hand. Th......Read the rest...

...Matisse pupil Albert Marquet compared with Japanese master Hokusai said to have poetic guile sans unneeded detail was his style......Read the rest...

...Japan At War Japan wages war winds bring clouds lullabying Mount Fuji to sleep. *** Note: Japanese political revolution ended the Edo period (1603-1867),......Read the rest...

...Some aftermaths burst unseen within, as aftershocks of sorrow, arriving as electric jolts that crash through your skin. Those shockwaves subside, twinkle out like embers; the Kleenex runs out......Read the rest...

...The melodic chords at finger tips , drift back and forth into a song 'ere long-the vivid images in a painter's eye transformed, splash upon canvas- the nouns,adjectives memorable verbs from po......Read the rest...

...SHANTELLE Made of stone, Shantelle - a tower. Castille of knightly breeding, she causes a coward to cower or a headstone as one’s marquee. Marble robes of nobility - curves like pert Kanaga......Read the rest...

...The Great Wave Off Kanagawa Morning and the fishers put out to sea, With joy and farewells to their families, Unaware today, they would meet with fate, To fight for life with a giant rog......Read the rest...

...The artist Hokusai memorialized, In his woodblock print of raging seas, The great wave off Kanagawa, That brought Nippon to its knees. Again the modern rising sun is caught, In the wrath of s......Read the rest...

...Life in all its aspects- poems explained in art. Ekphrasis After Hokusai......Read the rest...