Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about Winter 1
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about winter, snow, snowball, home, fire, children, fun, frost, hail, fish, ice fishing.
The year’s first snowfall;
such happiness to be
at home in my...
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Categories:
iciness, children, fire, fish, fun,
Form: Haiku
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Spring 2
...Matsuo Basho English Translations of haiku about spring, birds, bats, butterflies, flowers, sun, cherry.
Seeing them naked
almost makes me caress
the wanton flowers.
—Matsuo Basho, translation ...
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Categories:
iciness, bird, butterfly, culture, earth,
Form: Haiku
Things I think now that I'm old
...The older I get, the more I forget the names of colors.
Would you call this paint amber, burnt ochre, or clay?
Would it were the same with all of my dolors.
But age hasn’t washed an...
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Categories:
iciness, age, dark, grandparents, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Skeleton
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I am the prisoner of the ice voices
That talk to me with a lashing air
About cold and dark lands
Where forever, I will find my grave.
Chilled by the cold speech,
I let myself be hurt by th...
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Categories:
iciness, dark, death, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
Through it all
...To the lily moon that
never forsakes me~
amidst the cruel constellations
that left me stranded in
a melancholic maze
of rain-kissed memories.
I’ll write this prose for you,
on periwin...
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Categories:
iciness, emotions,
Form: Romanticism
Your Freezing Cold Attitude
...Do not be despicable
It is really terrible
How your attitude is being
Your humanity is fleeting
More and more each time I see
Your mannerism, its clearly
Out of control, so out of whack
All yo...
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Categories:
iciness, anger, hurt, pain, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Ice
...Inside the frozen wasteland that was once a heart, is a tiny ember of warmth.
All that is left of the burning compassion of a zen child.
Who can reach in through the glacier and bring life to that ...
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Categories:
iciness, anxiety, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Seasonal Time Share
...Oh, damned February,
As you breathe your last
Exhale in farewell iciness
Cold crystals fading gasp.
Thus, is your fate in Northeast climes
A fickle season’s whims and wonts
Harsh winter backi...
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Categories:
iciness, farewell, february, winter,
Form: Sonnet
So Delicious Salted Caramel Cluster Made With Cashew Milk
...Certified vegan;
Non-GMO Project Verified;
Free of dairy, lactose, soy, and gluten.
The consistency of vanilla
creamy and luxurious,
without a speck of iciness,
yet not overly heavy.
The fla...
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Categories:
iciness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
My Foolish Heart
...Her iciness gaze ensnared my foolish heart.
I was cast in the role of a comic swing.
Her infectious smile entices my depart.
She led my nervous hand to the Devil's ring!!
I was ca...
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Categories:
iciness, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Pantoum
Like An Oak
...like an old oak with a dried up knothole
I stand in the wind, feeling her iciness now
arthritis flares up in my roots when there is a wind chill
Wind chill being the perfect word for it.
like ...
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Categories:
iciness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Karmic Cement
...The sky hounds are tracking me down
in the cul-de-sac of social anxiety drive...
Despite covering my tracks in a hot peppered wind...
sticking the heart into a bowl of burning dice
(to cover th...
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Categories:
iciness, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
An Immortal Demise
...Streaks of light
in splendid symmetry,
Carefully crocheted clouds,
A tailor-made semicircle.
A stolen moment.
My eyes fixated on the
fiery blaze under its veil,
A blood orange kiss on
ever...
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Categories:
iciness, nature, sky, sunset,
Form: I do not know?
Fairy Tale
...Not in this millennium ..or the next
Did I ever fathom
That I would recognize
An adoration like fairy tale
All the simplicities
And complications
That made my heart
Coated with iciness
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Categories:
iciness, beautiful, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse
Autumn, a Fine Time of Year
...Autumn
A fine time of year
Its not the same as the other seasons, remember
Autumn has an exceptional ...
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Categories:
iciness, appreciation, autumn, november, october,
Form: Free verse
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