Long Japan Poems
Long Japan Poems. Below are the most popular long Japan by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Japan poems by poem length and keyword.
I Feel So Little Send Me what you heard around the worlds said It is Good It feels Like Good Energy
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Categories:
japan, adventure, america, analogy, beauty, endurance, history, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
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:
japan, 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:
japan, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Enola Gay
Enola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
japan, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
Ancient Haiku
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 no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
japan, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume Translation
To a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
japan, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
Ono No Komachi Translation: Autumn
Watching wan moonlight
illuminate tree limbs,
my heart also brims,
overflowing with autumn.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono...
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Categories:
japan, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form:
Tanka
Zen Death Haiku Ii
Today, catching sight of the mallards
crying over Lake Iware:
Must I too vanish into the clouds?
—Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch
This world—
to what may we compare it?
To autumn fields
lying darkening at dusk
illuminated by...
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Categories:
japan, death, imagery, life, nature, symbolism, visionary, world,
Form:
Haiku
People of Faith
It's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started.
After all,
we have all emerged together,
and are still emerging
people of TaoGod,
right?
Our faith includes defining our still humanizing species
as among those not capable...
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Categories:
japan, culture, earth day, education, health, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
japan, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Voting With Our Feet
It seemed to me,
when I was eight,
U.S. Christian disciples and teachers
had been given so much grace
And had fundamentally boiled it down
to settling for such small subcontinental WhitePatriarchal colonizing gratitude
for God's universally healthy
multicultural EarthTribes.
It was so...
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Categories:
japan, community, destiny, earth, happiness, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
The Mountain Goat
The noise aboard the motor boat reminds me that I was not alone
The high perspiration smell from the young couple sitting beside me
caused me to remember the green wood’s in Virginia and the squirrels
chasing each...
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Categories:
japan, angel, courage, creation, friendship, leadership, love, missing,
Form:
Narrative
The History of a Wasted Mind
“The History of a Wasted Mind”
What goes through the mind of a recidivist
Fist full of hate and hurt marking time
Fist full of history, got down with the dirt
The History of a Wasted Child
The History...
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Categories:
japan, abuse, child abuse, war,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon a Time
Two of the greatest gifts that God ever gave to mankind ...
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Categories:
japan, age, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Denied transformation
into a butterfly,
autumn worsens for the worm
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dusk-gliding...
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Categories:
japan, animal, death, earth, life, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Cautious Optimism
Human foot-traffic is flowing along slightly faster than 2020, ...
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Categories:
japan, world,
Form:
Verse
The Mojo Trick
The Mojo Trick
Loch David Crane
June 1979
Sweat-sticky and hot! The P. I. is not
a comfortable place to be;
but sit here and perspire (as though by the fire)
and I'll tell a tale to thee.
I was coming alive...
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Categories:
japan, absence, how i feel, humor, humorous, soldier,
Form:
Ballad
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife - Deux
Inevitable death defines afterlife - deux
Flinty stones figuratively rolling inside
whooping out that primal
binaural beat of your drum
ma mind haphazardly
ricocheting axon to neuron
inducing inxs of chaos
wreaking entropy beheld
by beauty and the beast
enveloping...
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Categories:
japan, absence, allah, angel, atheist, creation, death, eulogy,
Form:
Rhyme
Land Is a Loom
Land Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song and bear splashing fishers
From rutting moose and cougars sharp incisors.
The...
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Categories:
japan, adventure, environment, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
My Sister Marilyn - No Blood Relative
Although my sister and I are not related by blood, we are as close as any two humans can get outside the bond of marriage. It started when at the age of six, my own...
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Categories:
japan, art, beautiful, best friend, blessing, courage, creation,
Form:
Blank verse
Lilith
"Truth are not from the valley of the shadow of death ... Lilith, like all mythological entities, are humanity's creation, to explain--what they cannot," ... by The Poet
Hawaii Nei, bidst Aloha, inoa Pelekane ke'o ke'o,...
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Categories:
japan, abuse, america, betrayal, bible, conflict, imagery, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Corner of the Street
Pedestrians are moving ups and downs the day can define the differences he experiences in the bathroom, cars buzzing their noise, around my understanding I cannot keep on thrusting for answers which has to be...
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Categories:
japan, appreciation, butterfly, candy,
Form:
Chant Royal
Do Most People Live In Poor Countries
1: Which region of the globe has the lowest standard of living?
a. the Middle East.
b. sub-Saharan Africa
c. Asia.
d. Latin America.
2: Which of the following is not a country in the Third World?
a. Latin America
b. Asia.
c....
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Categories:
japan, analogy, world,
Form:
List
A Rose By Any Other Name ---
Through the hushed whisper of the breeze
Flowing through the majestic circling pine trees
I sense that I have stepped
Into a sacred hallowed space
A GARDEN OF ROSES
A heady perfume hits the senses
Euphoric, Exhilarating, Enticing, Ethereal comes to...
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Categories:
japan, beauty, humanity, love, peace, world war ii,
Form:
Ode
A Bullfrog and a Butterfly
A bullfrog and a butterfly both chanced upon each other.
‘My dear, you are an ugly beast!’ the bullfrog dared to utter.
‘Why froggy,’ gasped the butterfly, astounded by his words.
‘My beauty is unparallel while yours...
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Categories:
japan, children, funny, hilarious, humor, humorous, muse, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme