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Issa Dissa Groova Gam?
... Style Blending By Meatus and The Lady Dizzy Giggy Gotta Leading Lady Wriiten by Gents and His Lady ------------------------------ More than a dayplayer you're something special really some......

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Categories: issa, february, film, music, relationship,
Form: Ballad
Issa Translations II
...These are English translations of Issa haiku about the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter. Autumn wind ... She always wanted to pluck the reddest roses ?Kobayashi Issa translation by Micha......

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Categories: issa, autumn, rose, spring, stars,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member how long is the largest saltwater crocodile
...How long is the largest saltwater crocodile? If you want to know, you can see her for yourself. She lives in the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary in Issa, India. Would you like to guess? Even af......

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Categories: issa, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Zen Death Haiku Xii
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU XII 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 Yoa......

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Categories: issa, age, analogy, angst, animal,
Form: Haiku
Zen Death Haiku Xi
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU XI These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Above the garden the camellia tree blossoms whitely... —Uejima Onitsura, loose translation by Michae......

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



Zen Death Haiku X
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU X These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Forbearing the night with its growing brilliance: the summer moon. —Tsukioka Yooshi (1839-1892) , lo......

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Categories: issa, age, analogy, animal, anxiety,
Form: Haiku
Zen Death Haiku Ix
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Since I was born, I must die, and so … —Kisei (1688-1764) , loose translation/interpretation of ......

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Categories: issa, age, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Plum Blossom Haiku Ii
...Are you the butterfly while in my dreams I flit after Soshi? —Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch It's not at all anxious to bloom, the plum tree at my gate. —Kobayash......

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Categories: issa, animal, butterfly, flower, innocence,
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: issa, animal, flower, moon, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Transcendence
...*Image of Opening by Pixabay. "Never forget: we walk in hell, gazing at flowers." by, Kobayashi Issa Transcendence Into the dawn, one yearns to be normal, A delicate breath of p......

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Categories: issa, deep, power, spiritual,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Clerihew Issa
...Kobayashi Issa a Japanese poet perhaps the best..and yet childlike& sometime zany but always haiku crazy......

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Categories: issa, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
This World of Dew
...THIS WORLD OF DEW This world? Moonlit dew flicked from a crane's bill. —Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Seventy-one? How long can a dewdrop last? ......

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Categories: issa, age, art, autumn, bereavement,
Form: Haiku
Zen Death Haiku Ii
...Today, catching sight of the mallards crying over Lake Iware: Must I too vanish into the clouds? —Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch This world— to what may we compare it? To autum......

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Categories: issa, death, imagery, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
Lethal Pandemic
...I-nvisible S-ickness S-ilently A-ttacks M-ankind A-s R-abid I-nfection E-mploys L-ethal P-andemic A-pplying J-eopardy's E-eriness Topic: Birthday of Issa Mariel A. Paje (April 28)......

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Categories: issa, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member First Rain
...Surprise summer storm wingers nestle patiently--- my screen door Issa......

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Categories: issa, art, imagery, nature, rain,
Form: Haiku

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