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Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations
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 translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
deepens, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations Ii
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
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
deepens, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
See
See
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
deepens, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Butterflies and Bees
Poems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
deepens, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Chinese Translations Ii
Chinese Poets: English Translations II
These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty.
Tzu Yeh (circa...
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Categories:
deepens, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Haiku Translations of the Oriental Masters
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, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
deepens, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv
Sonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
deepens, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
This World of Dew
THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
deepens, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Animal 'Quackers' - Comments and Response From Poemhunter
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Lora Colon – Poemhunter.com
Okay, Long Tooth. You have some explaining to do. Really. I'm not sure what you are trying to say in this poem.
I 'sort of' get the...
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Categories:
deepens, appreciation, engagement, humor,
Form:
Didactic
Wild Flower Love
O’ my dearest love,
I gather the world’s rarest petals for you—
Ghost Orchid fragrance lingers
in the marsh’s quiet air
look, love, it fades
then rises in
the...
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Categories:
deepens, devotion, flower, love, memory, metaphor, valentines day,
Form:
Lyric
Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part One
Our Year Of Months (January - July)
1. Intro
Divided into months is our Earth year;
fixed firm in space to meet with climate change,
relation with our Sun makes it so clear
we will be blessed with seasons that...
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Categories:
deepens, daffodils, earth, seasons,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
She is not with me I can write the saddest verses tonight
She is not with me. I can write the saddest verses tonight.
I write, for example: "The night is starry" and the stars shiver, in the distance, and thousands of echoes of silent desires
Find shelter under...
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Categories:
deepens, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Views of a Dark Canyon: Poems En Duo 1
(By Youth, Beauty, and Age)
MISS YOU, BRO!
To: My bro, The heaven, God’s Palace
Dear One,
All the fights
That we had in the nights,
Cross across my mind …
And now...
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Categories:
deepens, grief, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Jo Jo Part Two
Coercion began
as the ground surrounds the seed
baring life and truth
A kingdom of soil
An army of soiled crickets
A pubescent king
Presenting Jo Jo
the leader of the region
and sire to the throne
Forced to lead the masses
basis chases hatred
Bandaged...
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Categories:
deepens, spiritual, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
The Watcher
Into the woods we ventured, where darkness began to encircle us,
Their ancient murmurs mingling with the forest’s ominous chorus.
A chilling breeze, as if the very breath of the woods sighed,
Veiled in tempestuous clouds, the stars...
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Categories:
deepens, dark, death, evil, fear, gothic, nature, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night New York Slept
It was one solemn, long night,
Tenebrous with the astuteness of perfidy,
And multiple hours before the break of an
Impatient dawn.
Lampposts froze through the pergola of winter.
Limp from exposure to unprintable tales of orgies,
And their lights, hidden...
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Categories:
deepens, city, new york,
Form:
Free verse
Synaesthesia
"SYNAESTHESIA"
The Rose was burning
long before she was Green
The Synaesthete placed his brush stroke
On his future dreams
Long before she was Green
The Synaesthete dreamed of him
Walking barefoot through the buried Rust
and rustling burnished Ochre leaves...
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Categories:
deepens, adventure, autumn, love, romance, winter,
Form:
Romanticism
Spiritual Gem Inside Me
“The magic of a gem lies not in its beauty, but in the spark it brings to the eye.” Unknown
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Categories:
deepens, appreciation, life, self, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
I preach to others to write and sing
I preach to others to write and sing,
to soothe the pain that rises like fog over a mountain,
I lend them my ears,
baptizing my tattered sheet of paper in their crystal tears,
their poetry and music whisper...
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Categories:
deepens, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Addict of a Different Sort
Someone that I know has a serious affliction,
Not chemically induced though, is their addiction.
He is always needing another dose or fix
In one way or another or in ways, a mix.
Though I don't know why, how...
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Categories:
deepens, addiction, crazy, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
Anglo-Norman Arising
the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
old and new empires jostle, reshaping across continents and...
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Categories:
deepens, england, history, identity, immigration, language, people, social,
Form:
Narrative
On a silent night, under a leaden sky and hidden stars
On a silent night, under a leaden sky and hidden stars,
democracy, like a bird with broken wings, has long since faded, lost in echoes,
and the New World Order, like an unseen dragon, spreads its merciless...
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Categories:
deepens, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The Glow
My heart is bleeding but no blood is dripping
My spirit is crying but no tears are flowing
The trees are moving but the wind is not blowing
A low feeling came over today that led my spirit...
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Categories:
deepens, career, celebrity, character, cheer up, deep, emotions,
Form:
Narrative
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about Winter 1
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about winter, snow, snowball, home, fire, children, fun, frost, hail, fish, ice fishing.
The year’s first snowfall;
such happiness to be
at home in my hut.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Fire-making...
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Categories:
deepens, children, fire, fish, fun, home, snow, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Jo Jo Part One
Coercion began
as the ground surrounds the seed
baring life and truth
A kingdom of soil
An army of soiled crickets
A pubescent king
Presenting Jo Jo
the leader of the region
and sire to the throne
Forced to lead the masses
basis chases hatred
Bandaged...
Read More
Categories:
deepens, feelings, endurance,
Form:
Free verse