Kiri Poems - Poems about Kiri

...Those chickens commit harra-kiri daily said Nan Of free-range livestock with beaks, she was not a great fan How do they do it? Asked her cousin curious Scar Easy; they run out in the road, in fron......

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... Mad macha Take your seat belt tight open the Seal of your engine oil now starting the rapid rain of tension, U know friends I kept loosening my memory for the last four days I am s......

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...I was a woke shrink, I sadly write this verse. My patients came in bad shape, ended up worse. Today there was Cohen, who thought he was French. I told him either way, his privilege gave a stench......

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...ZEN DEATH HAIKU IV These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. The moon hovering above the snow-capped mountains rained down hailstones —Sekitei Hara, loose transl......

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...For long bookcase-bound, Some books committed suicide. ‘Few readers were found’, The suicide note had decried, Sobered, the rest of books cried. The shock of the news Caused many in library ......

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...My most popular poems on the Internet (II) A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a l......

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...Dusk-gliding swallow, please spare my small friends flitting among the flowers! —Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch A bee emerging from deep within the peony's hairy recesses flie......

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...The first soft snow: leaves of the awed jonquil bow low —Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch Come, investigate loneliness! a solitary leaf clings to the Kiri tree —Matsuo Basho t......

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...Poems about the Coronavirus I yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1 by michael r. burch plagued by the Plague i plague the goldfish with my verse yet another iffy coronavirus haiku ......

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...yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1 by michael r. burch plagued by the Plague i plague the goldfish with my verse yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2 by michael r. burch sunflowe......

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...Poems about Poets I The Wonder Boys by Michael R. Burch for Leslie Mellichamp The stars were always there, too-bright cliches: scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew as baffled poet......

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...These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku. While you decline to cry, high on the mountainside a single stalk of plumegrass wilts. —O......

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... Enemies won't spare those brave; by opting seppuku, chose to die never bothered. Seppuku was not to commit, ‘twas to perform, ought to befit ever honoured. Event was part o......

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...Grasses wilt: the braking locomotive grinds to a halt —Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch Oh, fallen camellias, if I were you, I'd leap into the torrent! —Takaha Shugyo, trans......

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...I was- suicidal when my baby died- possessed with death when my love left a name engraved buried deep and went into a dark pit running from life happiness was gone ......

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