Kanji Poems - Poems about Kanji

half way

...an unfinished kanji,
      no 
 one can understand it yet-
      h a
     l         f
    w             a
   y                                            through life...

Komorebi

...KOMOREBI

Summer’s dappled light
Sunlight shining through the trees
A kanji construct...

Sotoba Komachi

...Sotoba Komachi is a modern Noh play by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). Mishima's play is based on an ancient work by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (1333-1384). The first kanji means "stupa" (the dome of a shrine) whi...

Yi Feng Xin

...Yi feng xìn

Dear Motherland,
hope meagre moments yet dance
throwing taunted thrills
to the fostering figs?

Dear Motherland,
do the sassy streams with flaps
on diminuendo and crescendos' rh...

Ground Zero

...i seem to remember
a sunroof sky
full of kanji and silk
wisteria dancing across the wind
my daughter laughing in that so saturated face
as friend and i sit down to a morning game
i swore i woul...

Data

...It’s frustrating, isn’t it? 
Creating meta hypotheses based on observations and data, 
but not knowing whether they really fit or not? 
Quantum particles change behavior when you are looking at th...

Little Houses

...The                                                                                                                                                                           ...

Sonnet To the Pupil of My School

...Hey I wrote a sonnet. The subject is the agony of leaving behind friends after tenth grade,cause i am leaving tenth grade this year.Its my first sonnet,tell me how is it Rate it out of ten

Few mon...

Sacred Place For Natural Dodoitsu Contest

...If you gaze on my beauty
from my snow white head to the
lakes  at my feet you find peace
deep within your soul

I am a sacred place, one
of three mountains in Japan
wealth* is what my name translates...

Children of the Divine Wind

...Many times the ocean 
has saved Nippon,     pearl of the sea,
an oceanic symbiosis  a speck in a fecund see.
The dikes of man  such miniscule plans to   hold back the tide. 
The throngs, each...

Fragile Rice Papers

...fragile rice papers
cling to a thrashed wicker wall
and silent gazes
kanji-stained blots become buds
some bloom into ureshii


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1.  "Ureshii" means happiness (...

Ancient Strokes

...forgive me master
while you at your desk
took private your thoughts

i dared trespass...
approaching silent
i slipped your mind
in the rays of sun
i came from behind

the master
and I at h...

Japanese, If You Please

...Beings, precious, small, frail, they
walk at a precise pace, more wary, than gaijin* 
with their large log-like feet,
of the other small precious lives,
the flight of tiny, blue and gold-face...

Snow Monkeys / Japan 2008

...A cathedral of cedar spires,
branches, lifted upward toward a robins' egg sky,
adorned the gravel trail;
on the way to the hot springs 
deep in the heart
of the Japanese alps.

Fallen cedar fr...

Japanese If You Please / 2008

...Beings, precious, small, frail, they
walk at a precise pace;
more wary than gaijin with their
large log-like feet,
of the other small precious lives;
the flight of tiny blue and gold faced birds...

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