Farewell Over The Moon Poems

From mine chamber, breathless and perspiring upon the bed,
I spy you there, out my window, looming overhead.
Your gaze, a silent arbiter in the night,
I cloak...

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Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku

Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.

Having seen the moon
I can bid...

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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...

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Sunset painted a dramatic farewell scene
across the bay's horizon, bold and yet serene,
in a moment that stole my breath from me
as the fading sun slowly...

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Can we put a man on the moon?
Just asking, hope not too soon..

We've built him a rocket
In the shape of a bed
With nice fluffy pillows
For...

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Lorca Translations II

Canción del jinete (“Song of the Rider”)
by Federico Garcia Lorca
translation by Michael R. Burch

Cordoba. Distant and lone.
Black pony, big moon,
olives in my saddlebag.
Although...

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Sunlight was paling.
Was it drifting on the sea
like an ebbing tide?
It glinted farewell
to a day of sovereignty
as twilight drew nigh.
At the cusp of night
a new...

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Deep into scientific facts, I do not want to go,
Though - why? And what? - Questions of reasons often in me glow;
I wonder at the...

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NO MORE…..
My world has gone silent,the birds chirp no more.
Life has gone still, flowers bloom no more.
Skylight has faded coz my moon shines no more.
Melodies...

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My love when you leave
When you walk away
It's my moon vanishing
It's my sun disappearing
I do not eat
And your delicious food sleeps under the covers
I drink...

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Deceitful seasons breed perfidy
Waves form the fantasy of the starry beam
The heart of crimson is bleeding
Reflection is a calm shade of blue
Blustery winds in the...

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autumn mosaic
	summer’s formal farewell gift ~
		lazy leaf loosens

(October Full Moon – Anishinaabe)...

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I turned your way to talk to you,
then I remembered you were gone.
Tiptoed at night in softest shoe,
I looked for you but saw no one.

Sometimes...

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If you saw me first, would we have ended up the same? 
Would you have come over to me and asked for my name? 

Sometimes...

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Tonight I looked up,
wide eyed and mouth agape.
The heavens glittered with stars,
making exquisite shapes.

The darkness all around,
tried hard to engulf their sheen.
But they flickered and
flaunted...

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