Modern English Poems - Poems about Modern English

...These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller........Read the rest...

...Chinese translations Li Bai These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, who was also known as Li Po. Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain by Li Bai loose translation/int......Read the rest...

...GILDAS TRANSLATIONS These are modern English translations of Latin poems by the English monk Gildas Sapiens (“Gildas the Wise”). “Alas! The nature of my complaint is the widespread destruction......Read the rest...

...Ono 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 ......Read the rest...

...These are my modern English translations/interpretations of ancient Greek poems by the immortal Sappho of Lesbos… With my two small arms, how can I think to encircle the sky? —Sappho, fragment 3......Read the rest...

...The world’s on edge of a disaster, As man both deaf and dumb has gone, Clueless at crest with empty bluster, The world’s on edge of a disaster, Helpless, man’s fallen flat, and faster, Fruits o......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU XII These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops: flashes of light briefly illuminating the void. —Ouchi Yoa......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU XI These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Above the garden the camellia tree blossoms whitely... —Uejima Onitsura, loose translation by Michae......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU X These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Forbearing the night with its growing brilliance: the summer moon. —Tsukioka Yooshi (1839-1892) , lo......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Since I was born, I must die, and so … —Kisei (1688-1764) , loose translation/interpretation of ......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Had I not known I was already dead I might have mourned my own passing. —Ota Dokan, loose transla......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VII These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Stricken ill on a journey, in dreams I go wandering withered moors. —Matsuo Basho, loose translati......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VI These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops: flashes of light briefly illuminating the void. —Ouchi Yoaka......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU V These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. A cat in heat can't catch a mouse? — pathetic! —Kinpu, loose translation by Michael R. Burch It's......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU IV These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. The moon hovering above the snow-capped mountains rained down hailstones —Sekitei Hara, loose transl......Read the rest...