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Long Noh Poems

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What Is the Order
I get up to the sound of drilling, banging and speeding cars with sleepy passengers shouting, “a who did a give the order,” and the fading response of another passenger “ a the woman with...

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Categories: noh, 8th grade, absence, america, beauty, butterfly, confidence,
Form: Narrative



You Never Come
You never come when I need you
You never come when I am thinking about you
Your never come when the sun is hot
You never come when I am gallivanting in my pretty frock.

I saw someone today...

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Categories: noh, absence, anxiety, city, confusion, cry, encouraging, gender,
Form: Narrative
Get Set
You have fifteen days to get it right, you have fifteen days to fight with all your might, the toilet is not flushed, my hair is not bushed, and there is no bread and butter...

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Categories: noh, adventure, appreciation, change, children, community, confidence, education,
Form: Narrative
Sotoba Komachi
Sotoba Komachi is a modern Noh play by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). Mishima's play is based on an ancient work by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (1333-1384). The first kanji means "stupa" (the dome of a shrine) while the...

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Categories: noh, beautiful, beauty, girl, heartbreak, heartbroken, poetess, river,
Form: Free verse
The Wind In the Pines 3
3.   At the Cabin

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)

(The Chokugan  =  a...

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Categories: noh, myth,
Form: Rhyme



The Wind In the Pines 2
("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)


2.   The Beach, After Dark 

The coast has drowned...

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Categories: noh, myth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Heaven and Hell
Once upon a time, there was a world, a one-derful world. Before they
needed explanations that became their defining moment. Contrasts,
and differences that tore them apart. Heaven and Hell are constants,
from their privileged beginnings; they are...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: noh, absence, analogy, appreciation, imagery, song,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Wind In the Pines 5
5.  Murasame’s Story Concludes

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)


MATSUKAZE & MURASAME 
(chanting in harmony) 
Pine...

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Categories: noh, myth,
Form: Couplet
The Wind In the Pines 6
6.   Matsukaze 

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)

Despite 
the vigil I kept, night on...

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Categories: noh, myth,
Form: Rhyme
The Wind In the Pines 4
4.   Murasame Starts to Relate the Story

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)


MATSUKAZE & MURASAME...

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Categories: noh, myth,
Form: Couplet
Don' Wanna Bee ‘roun Ewe Noh Moh
Don’ wanna bee roun ewe noh moh.
Don’ wanna see da trajuhdee dats heded,
At yah doh.
Ewe wuz vary ahful tah mi,
God’s chile. Eye didden doyah nuttin.
’
Yah ‘sposed,  tah bee ah liter rite?
Butt ya playin’ roun...

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Categories: noh, caregiving, childhood, faith, inspirational, life, people, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
The Wind In the Pines 1
("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)

1. The Buddhist Priest

This was the day of the White Crane....

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Categories: noh, myth, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
The Color of Yellow
Me: I’m sorry, I didn’t catch you name
Him:Yellow, but my friends call me Yell

Me: Say again? I’m somewhat hearing impaired 
Him: Yellow!! But my friends call me Yell!!

Me: There’s certainly no need to YELL at...

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Categories: noh, color, humorous, violence,
Form: Light Verse
Cyclone
Marvelous Maxine Hunkel, heroine cyclone, 
With her amazing power gets anyone blown...!

Through her abductor scientist Morrow the mad,
With vast violent velocity she got clad...!

Her simple sneeze could destroy her granny’s garage,
She could sleep in tornado...

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Categories: noh, hero,
Form: Couplet
In the Hills of Seven Huts
In the hills of seven huts,
Where war is either a place or surname,
And dreams are translated into numbers,
And a number became a gambler's sad song,
I found God breathing through the pine trees.

Orchards in the hills...

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Categories: noh, adventure, analogy, appreciation, art, blessing, care, change,
Form: ABC
Cat Or the Sparrow
"toity poiple boids,
dehd upahn da coib, 
noh muh chiopin or
boipin, 
or eatin doity
woims..."

I found a dead
sparrow this
morning,
sideways on the
stoop, 
strangely unblooded,
gifted by clever
cats, 
it fed my morning
reverie, 
always heavy on my
shoulders, 
in the early frozen
hours,...

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Categories: noh, life,
Form: Prose
Smile
You brighten my day 
Showin' me my direction 
You're comin' to me 
And givin' me inspiration 
How can i ask for more 
From you my dear 
Maybe just a smile in your 
(maybe just a...

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© Michurz Mo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: noh, heart, missing you, nostalgia, smile,
Form: Free verse
You For Noh
You for noh
Say I dey shine my eyez
Coz na so so wahalla wey dey shine for my head top

You for noh
Say na I jos dey parade my gari den granot
So sey hunger no go kill...

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Categories: noh, africa, class, death, humor, life, longing, travel,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Fx
Have some fun.
Presentation of self.
Afterlife functional illusion.

If your memories don't heart attack or cancer out
or from traffic accident
who will effortlessly flush them out?

You must give yourself to man
be more selfless.
Do one thing well. Flute.

History final....

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Categories: noh, fashion, father, film, fire, fish, fun, philosophy,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs