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Ota Poems - Poems about Ota


Zen Death Haiku Viii
...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......

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Categories: ota, age, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Haiku
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 autum......

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Categories: ota, death, imagery, life, nature,
Form: Haiku



Celebrated Headache
...CELEBRATED HEADACHE. This Ota farmer recognized as Africans kobo Copper coin with a fluctuating photo, You load tomorrow’s volt into this Over sized portfolio, Debit, wearing ma......

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Categories: ota, art,
Form: Ballade

Book: Reflection on the Important Things