Japanese Poems - Poems about Japanese

Don’t be fooled, they carry nothing of the Orient’s allure. These voracious beetles, if they had the appetite, might easily bring down the loftiest sequoia. Depraved sexual deviants, they deflower helpless roses in broad daylight; and, like Medieval artisans of yore turn hardy zinnias into empty-ribbed cathedral windows. Their shells are hard like scarabs, but charmless, slicked with an iridescence cheap and tacky like carnival glass. Eager...

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japanese chickens produce for bright orange egg yolks carotene diet off putting maybe salmonella neutralized safe and edible...

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Carpal tunnel twinges punctuate a torpid afternoon, as row on row we line the aisles and stare at nothing with the guarded anonymity of urinating men. My thumb is on the lever, moving almost imperceptibly, as marbles rocket into space and filter down through obstacles designed to keep the management in business. The captive of a chain reaction freed from craving by acceptance of the preordained, I decompose, am compromised, incorporated...

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seventeen onji phonetic not syllabic seasonal tristich...

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Many believers find from faith in God that He is "the source, the force and the course" that leads to peace and joy and heaven.  Bill Stafford on Romans 11:34-36 It is what it is; once death is certainty. He was my night and day for forty-eight years; as yet he's counted a dear friend among peers.  No matter how...

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Some things cannot be changed. However, you need not react; It is nonsensical to do so. Keep your focus on the things you can change And let the things that you cannot change go. Take time to let them roll off your back And stay peaceful. Getting injured cannot be helped with cries or screams And requires the positivity of focusing on rehabilitation. Naturally,...

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Amidst the city's relentless pulse and roar, Lies a sanctuary, the Japanese garden’s core. Stepping through its gates, a portal to a dream, Into a realm where Zen's whispers gleam. Bonsai trees, like ancient elders, bow, Their emerald whispers, a silent vow. Evergreen sentinels sculpted with care, Stand as guardians in the tranquil air. A...

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Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo. Having seen the moon I can bid this planet farewell. —Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch The moon settled in a flower-strewn stream ... —Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Illuminating my fishing line: the midsummer moon. —Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch With...

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Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo. CHIYO-NI POEMS ABOUT WOMEN AND DESIRE How alarming: her scarlet fingernails tending the white chrysanthemums! —Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Moonflowers blossoming: a woman’s nakedness —Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Moonflowers: a woman glows as she disrobes —Fukuda Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation...

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Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo. Because morning glories held my well-bucket hostage I went begging for water! —Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Chiyo-ni wrote the next poem in calligraphy on a portrait of Matsuo Basho. To listen, fine ... fine also not to echo, nightingale. —Chiyo-ni,...

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Female Sempai, Geisha for her Man, has not shed her feminine garb. No replacement theology of female kimono designing of tailored and defiant underhand. . Her graceful steel honor honored still. in your gaze Blossoms bloom in beauty’s shade, Elysia dances in a blaze. Silken postulance gleams like golden dawn, shining beacon of value borrowed form, from a garden of...

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When I first saw you sparks flowing from heart- to heart you mesmerized me my dear when I first saw you I knew I had met my fate you were my forever love ...

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Shizumanu Taiyo Japanese Flight 123 [Verse 1] They say you are a sun that never set I thought the time would never come Remembering the unremembered, forever without beauty Now, I sit and wonder what it would be like [Pre-Chorus] Do I just pretend it doesn’t matter? I'll forever be waiting The day will never end Cleaning the wound...

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Matsuo Basho My brother, it’d snowed so much That the Sun had died. Poems are vital For a better Society Du Fu is happy. Su Shi is proud too Yes, Poetry is important For the Universe. Copyright © December 2023, Hébert Logerie, all rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems. ...

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