Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Life 1
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about clouds, geese, departing, empty nests and huts, lonely, loneliness, drinking alone, sake, longing, loss, death, hawks, the moon, Japanese culture.
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Categories:
lonesomeness, culture, death, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Haiku
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Autumn 1
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about autumn, fall, sea, autumn wind, harvest moon, dark, darkness, dawn, day, life.
First of autumn:
the sea and the rice fields
the same green hue.
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Categories:
lonesomeness, autumn, dark, day, life,
Form: Haiku
A Better Be
...I feel alone
The type where I choose to be
It was unknown
Yet known to be me
Im alone and I love it
Im lonely and confuse
Its lonesomeness to keep
Its loneliness I refuse
I left everythin...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, life,
Form: Rhyme
Lonesome
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” —Maya Angelou
Lonesomeness dreads the twinkling afore sleep falls,
Soft and sou...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, god, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Terza Rima
frozen in place - DAVE
...fearless
rather brazen
occassionally broken
zealous
empath vibes…
nostalgic at night
imaginative, isolative, unpredictable
neglected in the cold for life
peace, come…come shine…
laced in...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, angst, hope, how i
Form: Acrostic
Surface Tension
...Surface tension
I wrote
The many warning signs,
That somehow satisfied us two
Hooked on a note,
Choked out of the freedom
We both could have known
Where there were blues in his eyes.
Ma...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, abuse, addiction, analogy, blue,
Form: Free verse
Sobriety
...I want to seek sobriety everyday
I hope to God this sleepless night
I pray and pray away the pain tonight
I want to be okay as I lay here, decaying like a wilted flower in May
I feel thi...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, angst, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Lyric
A Journey of Hope
...In the solitude of my existence, a
sentiment of lonesomeness clings to me
like a specter, its icy fingers gripping my
soul.
As I strive to conceal the abyss within, it
only deepens, a voraci...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, mental health, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sublime Journey Midst Divine Movement
...Admitting need for solace from lonesomeness
My soul seeks hope propped by serene blissfulness
To overcome feeling of separateness
Imprisoning me around guilt’s awfulness
Fortified upon co...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Monorhyme
Tinderbox
...Rife are grievous echoes lamenting worldwide
From widespread disgust clamoring weary sigh,
Perturbed in lonesomeness, bawling in dark,
Clasped beneath shroud of tenebrous clouds,
Rendering world ...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, anger, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Verse
My Vision Aflame
...Impossible to burst my bubble of invincibility
Invisible to all human beings, so I need a mere remedy
Scatterbrained, but I remain in my lane of thought again, again, again
It doesn’t matter that ...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, angst, deep, desire,
Form: Lyric
Choice
...In the darkest days of indecision
I lay in my lonesomeness
dazzled by the uncertainties of my desires.
Just then
I flashed back to the sweetest memory of your smile
driving me into the colde...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, 1st grade, africa, art,
Form: Free verse
Rich Wail of the Impoverished
...Up the hill upon a rickety stool
I watched afloat
With clouds of lonesomeness for company
The richest streams flow
From a source of dreams they come
The wails a song so rich, yet the reality of...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, 9th grade, anger, anxiety,
Form: Ballad
Showers
...the heat of the water
is poorly distributed;
her heart still aches -
cold,
her tears still shed
past discussions fly by,
the recall of unwanted faces -
it’s a horde of sadness
and dre...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, 9th grade, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
You My Dusky Hue
...The range in its majesty gives way to open thoughts of the wild things in taming, I have eaten hard pan and dust as my regular meal to be had.
I to the constant trail beaten into the saddle just s...
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Categories:
lonesomeness, absence, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
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