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You Might Be from a Small Midwestern Town If

...You might be from a small midwestern town
If you know what husking corn means
You might be from Iowa
If your town was full of relatives

You might be from Nebraska
If you have heard the term hu...

Categories: husking, life,
Form: Free verse

Zen Death Haiku Vi

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VI

These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.

Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops:
flashes of light
briefly illuminating the void.
—Ouchi Yoaka...

Categories: husking, age, analogy, angst, animal,
Form: Haiku

Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations

...Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations

Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

Denied transformation
...

Categories: husking, animal, death, earth, life,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Mythical Lyre

...in meadows more verdant than evergreen
there is but an Orphic lyre that tingles
in dream’s delight,
haunting, husking, heaving
the songs my soul cannot reach
except in interludes of ...

Categories: husking, music, mystery, uplifting,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Eclipse At Chibok

...They crept in howling darkness,

With guns, machetes and 
bombs,

Bringing down our walls,

Our gate, the center could not 
hold.



They whispered in thundering 
tones,

Spraying their bullets at...

Categories: husking, fear
Form: Narrative

The Plant's Equivalent Cyanide

...I see brown leaves drooping, burn marks in the bark,
the populated gala, ignorant in the park.
...With obliviousness, boots are crushing-
the dreaming leaves that died before.

Wild roots, a str...

Categories: husking, nature
Form: I do not know?

Canterbury Landscape

...I use to hike through Flankers’ un-cobbled street
                       With easel and canvas hawking my mind

Sketching the apiary’s tenement
 Dull gray boxes densely scattered

             ...

Categories: husking, placesme,
Form: Free verse

The Joy of the Morning Charm

...The sun's rise,
The bird's chirp so precise.
The cock's clarion,
The drowsy puppies union.
The rustling of the trees,
The humming of the bees.
The tinkle of the bells.
The morning of the shell...

Categories: husking, nature
Form: Rhyme

Song of An Ancient Poet

...I live in bliss, Ising with thee
In faith and hope I sing and pray
When day comes with dew on the lea
In faith and hope I sing and pray

Oft in prayers I lift my palms
In winter`s cold or summe...

Categories: husking, song-faith, hope,
Form: Rhyme