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Kimonos Poems - Poems about Kimonos

Cherry Blossoms

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The cherry blossom over the Osaka River in Osaka city,
Keeps the castle overhead mesmerized in its beauty,
The pink and white blossom sparkle and shine on nice Spring Day,
Like the stars glowing...

Categories: kimonos, spring,
Form: Free verse

Summer San Francisco Valentine

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                Summer San Francisco Valentine



                 Your heart beats in me 
                 Loving you seasonlessly
                 Under summer stars


 
       ...

Categories: kimonos, happiness, image, love, sensual,
Form: Haiku

Yosa Buson Translations

...Yosa Buson haiku translations

On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hard to describe:
this light sensation...

Categories: kimonos, age, animal, autumn, father,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Curtain Up

...My anticipation mounting as I walk into the lobby
A trip to the theatre is my greatest love, my hobby
With feelings of great wonder and excitement overflowing
For only a calamity can really stop m...

Categories: kimonos, appreciation, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

Jade Sea

...jade sea of leaves —
baby’s breath travels amidst
their kimonos knees

01/01/2018...

Categories: kimonos, nature,
Form: Haiku

Inside the Shops and Around the Town

...A rich rusty old screw on an escalator in a shopping centre can never really be as exact as a tidal wave forming with over fifty prawns playing in an elevator. For elevators are really lifts and lift...

Categories: kimonos, appreciation,
Form: I do not know?

Geisha

...GEISHA

Genteel girls trained to charm
Gentlemen with their wit,
Graceful dancing and song.
Garbed in silk kimonos,
Garnished with exquisite
Gems and embroidery - 
Gracious teahouse hostess.
...

Categories: kimonos, culture, dance, woman,
Form: Pleiades

Intelligent Swim - Haiku

...Intelligent Swim - Haiku

nine girls, nude, dived in
river washed clean, beauty blushed 
kimonos stayed dry...

Categories: kimonos, adventure, beauty, girl, image,
Form: Haiku

Pumpkin Cake

...There once was a girl from Arizona
Who could only fit in a kimona
She vowed to lose some weight
But loved all kinds of cake
Even drawn by pumpkin cake's aroma  

She vowed that she would be stron...

Categories: kimonos, food, funny,
Form: Limerick

To Shino

...Her name is Shino
She Wears Pretty Kimonos
She Smiles When We Meet
Most Beautiful Silent Greet
Her Soul is as gentle as her Smile
She will always make your stay
Worthwhile...

Categories: kimonos, love,
Form: Ode

To Japan

...In the place of the rising sun
Where fasts break on sushi
And the sumo's size a delight

The earth wriggles – wets our kimonos
Took stuffs up to origami
And dampens muses for haiku

As the su...

Categories: kimonos, dedication, natural disasters, people,
Form: Lyric

---Nine Torn Kimonos

...nine torn kimonos
man sits staring out window---
bare arsed slacker

*a stitch in time saves 9...

Categories: kimonos, family, funny, husband
Form: Senryu

Domo Arigato

...When you’re 4
Leaving a city 
Age 8
Unfortunate
Many events
You forget.
Spoke fluent Japanese,
Phrases
Some words
Counting 
Still do.
Cherry blossoms
Thin rice paper doors
Friends
Schoo...

Categories: kimonos, places,
Form: Free verse