Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Life 1
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about clouds, geese, departing, empty nests and huts, lonely, loneliness, drinking alone, sake, longing, loss, death, hawks, the moon, Japanese culture.
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Categories:
intermissions, culture, death, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Haiku
November Sanctum
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sun sets early in november
while streetlights pepper busy sidewalks
and chilly winds hurl through the streets
bundled up, head on we face the gale
always keen for coffeehouse intermissions
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Categories:
intermissions, solitude,
Form: Free verse
I'll match that fire
...I'll match that fire.
I'll throw all this desire and allow you to inspire. Poof. Don't you want to go higher?
High above the clouds.
High above to the forever broken permanent place.
The place th...
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Categories:
intermissions, allegory, birth, universe,
Form: Free verse
Harbors
...lay intermissions
fortuitous functions
middle roadside rests...
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Categories:
intermissions, adventure, journey, joy, memory,
Form: Haiku
The Batman Movie
...The Batman Movie (a review).
The clues part was cool, but the end of it got boring. I liked that Batman kept a journal - I like the idea of men keeping journals, because, do men have many thought...
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Categories:
intermissions, school, student, teen, write,
Form: Free verse
Rear-Ended Nightmares-
...amongst the prism dreams
nightmares in rage enlarging schemes
of the fiery fiendish fiends below the ground
the skies intervene cloudless simply innocent as a child
deporting vision...
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Categories:
intermissions, addiction, dream, imagery, night,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Tried Tested and Trued-
...All my sins,
All my faults and thoughts
I am tried, tested and trued
All my intermissions
All my ill-gotten decisions
I’ve been tried, twisted untrue
All my wrongs, those bad things I’ve do...
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Categories:
intermissions, analogy, appreciation, forgiveness, happy,
Form: Lyric
The Eulogy
...this is it I mean I often wondered
how it would be written and who
would write it would they remember
me who I was the great things
I've done or just shallow
forget me nots of things I wis...
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Categories:
intermissions, love, passion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Happening 143 Ear Candy
...tempo
so loud
so
frantic
fast
furious:
the
calm
quiet
...interludes..
..intermissions..
..then..
...sleep
inspired by Ravel waltz noble...
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Categories:
intermissions, inspirational, music,
Form: Verse
Peter Parker the Spiderman
...A long
A lone 8 legged spider
In a lab stringing down
Oh, there's a teen a...
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Categories:
intermissions, boy, celebrity, dedication, destiny,
Form: Heroic Couplet
When Comedians Marry
...When Comedians Marry
Comics juggle three rings when they wed
On trampoline bed they start a circus
Keep gold bands on hand while thinking zany thoughts
The comic husband wears two condoms al...
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Categories:
intermissions, adventure, celebration, crazy, funny
Form: Free verse
War Horror
...damp mold smell of the earth
slaves of destruction some seven thousand strong
made into moles
tunnels miles, miles long
nine hundred each month on the
backs beaten on to win a war
miles above o...
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Categories:
intermissions, anger, betrayal, hate, history,
Form: Free verse
Hearts Depart
...When you die how many people do you think you know will go to the funeral?
When a friend or a helpful hand is hard to come by can’t understand why we just numerals.
The fingers on the hand have a p...
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Categories:
intermissions, loss, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Ancient Sins
...Drunk with pride
the streets are bursting
in self-indulgence.
Who was calling the shots ?
Do you know the words
between intermissions, carry a secret-
till the brazen scoop
finds the hidden meaning...
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Categories:
intermissions, art,
Form: ABC
Executive Decision
...This decision, has to come from the top
so as I watch I pray, and pray what I watch
goes this distance these brief intermissions
are nothin but a waste and not every woman
can satisfy what I have...
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Categories:
intermissions, faithprayer,
Form: ABC
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