Long Ono Poems
Long Ono Poems. Below are the most popular long Ono by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ono poems by poem length and keyword.
Ancient HaikuThese 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:
ono, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Ono No Komachi Translation: AutumnWatching 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:
ono, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form:
Tanka
Ono No Komachi TranslationsAs I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Submit to you—is that what you advise?
The way the ripples...
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Categories:
ono, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form:
Tanka
More Iffy Coronavirus Haikuyet 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
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote this poem after having...
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Categories:
ono, america, death, eulogy, health, humanity, natural disasters,
Form:
Haiku
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About PoiWelcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mouth....
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Categories:
ono, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture, food, motivation, together,
Form:
Narrative
Ono No Komachi Translations IiiOno no Komachi Translations
These are my modern English translations of the ancient Japanese poems of Ono no Komachi…
"It's over!"
Your words drizzle like dismal rains,
bringing tears,
as I wilt with my years.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by...
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Categories:
ono, beautiful, beauty, dream, flower, nature, rain, woman,
Form:
Tanka
The Red Chinese Are Using Covid-19 To Destroy the Usa and the World"The Red Chinese are using COVId-19 to destroy the economy of the United States of America!" According to Christian television and my Chinese American friend.
What was the immediate economic threat Red China unleashed upon both...
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Categories:
ono, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Who Is the Antichrist and the False Prophet Part TwoEach and every generation Satan has had his very own candidate for the Antichrist. Roman Emperor Nero Caesar was the numero ono candidate for the Antichrist for his generation because of his terrible persecutions of...
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Categories:
ono, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
Sotoba KomachiSotoba 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:
ono, beautiful, beauty, girl, heartbreak, heartbroken, poetess, river,
Form:
Free verse
The Love and Lost Quartet - Part Three - Over the Yearshey danny, do you remember...
...dueling 'blind melon' acoustics
on your living room floor?
...falling asleep all afternoon
on the hammock, couch or floor?
...hanging out with yoko ono
at the lennon art show?
...painting murals in the school halls
they're still there,...
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Categories:
ono, break up, first love, goodbye, heartbroken, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Ny Ny -- the Road In the ForkNew York, New York, the road in the fork
of the events, the places and folks who've buttered the pork
Like Rockefeller, Moynihan and Andrew Cuomo
Frank Sinatra, Louie Armstrong,...
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Categories:
ono, film, music, new york, nostalgia, sports, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
- Diva -Perfect o##
Passions#o#
Promise ###
Sexy#Sexy#
Infinite deep #
...
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Categories:
ono, art, sexy,
Form:
Shape
Squamous Last Blurreds(At 10:40pm on December 8, 1980,
John Lennon was shot and mortally
wounded on 72nd Street, New York.
Given his love of outrageous wordplay,
this poem imagines his stream-of-
consciousness utterings as the
ambulance rushes him to hospital,
moments before his...
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Categories:
ono,
Form:
Rhyme
Looney TuneMax is mad at Molly
Samantha’s sore at Seth
Freida’s freaking out at Frodo
While Hobbits hold their breath
Jack jokes about poor Jill
She hits him with her pail
Humpty cracks open Dumpty
For drinking all his ale
Mickey Mouse...
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Categories:
ono, angst, conflict,
Form:
Quatrain
Freshwater MermaidsFresh water mermaids
Under a big crowned tree near the lake three land mermaids
sat knitting swimsuits, the saw me and sat still as rabbits, I pretended
not to see them but did use the corner of...
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Categories:
ono, angst, assonance, books,
Form:
Sonnet
Michael,Let's Sing 'Imagine'Welcome Michael,I am so glad that you have come to meet me,
so many things I want to share with you over this cup of coffee.
I know your poetic heart Michael,and that you're a dreamer like...
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Categories:
ono, friendship, imaginationapril, love,
Form:
Couplet
An Alphabet of TalentFred Astaire was king of tap
Biggie Smalls was huge in rap
Carson (Johnny)ruled TV
Dylan’s songs are poetry
Elvis made the girls all swoon
Frank Sinatra loved to croon
Greta Garbo hid from sight
Hitchcock gave us all a fright
Isaac Hayes’...
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Categories:
ono, art, people,
Form:
Couplet
They'Re Coming To Take Us Away~ Just thinkin' tonight ~
They're coming to take us away
Ha, ha, ho, ho, tee, hee
The Woke Ones; ha, ha, hee, hee
They're coming for you and me
Fluid sexual preferences, ho, ho
...
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Categories:
ono, america, fate, gender, race, satire, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Nightime RevelationsAfter a day of mixed hopes and disappointments
I lay down upon my old mattress
and watch
the television station where thy play new age music
and offer...
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Categories:
ono, introspection, peace,
Form:
Concrete
Mean To Paula DeanMean to Paula Dean
Why should we be mean to Paula Dean
To us in America is the cooking queen,
Who used a word which was a no no
I had heard from Sunny Bono and Ono.
Just because it...
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Categories:
ono, humor, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
Lennon IncognitoLennon Incognito
Was is that bad John?
You’re looking like rather
White and sheepish!
Was the Beatle-mania bad enough
For you to resort to faking your own death?
Couldn’t you take your own advice
and just imagine?
Was Yoko Ono that hard...
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Categories:
ono, history, loss, music, parody, satire, song-upliftingday,
Form:
Light Verse
Ezi Enyi Ka NwanneEzi enyi amaka na uwa
Ezi enyi ka nwanne ojo
Lezie enyi gi anya oge nile
Ahabula ya ka onwu na nsogbu.
Owere enyi ka nwanne ma
Obu ikwu na ibe gi na uwa
Mgbe nsogbu di ono ya,
Na oganihu...
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Categories:
ono, africa,
Form:
Epigram
Oh No Yoko OnoYoko heard the gun go
Off in his hands
Yoko saw the life flow
Out of her man
Yoko heard the sad moan
All across the land
Yoko is alone
To never understand
Yoko must cope
In this devil's dance
Yoko with us lost...
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Categories:
ono, death, life,
Form:
Rhyme