Paddies Poems - Poems about Paddies

...Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about autumn, fall, falling, trees, leaves, leaving, goodbye, rice, moon, moonlight, words. Reverential tears: the falling leaves bid their trees good......

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...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about summer, trees, firefly, fireflies, cuckoos, rice fields, rice paddies, bush-clover, Iris, Irises, temple, temples, Japanese culture, light, daylight,......

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...This world? Moonlit dew flicked from a crane’s bill. —Eihei Dogen Kigen translation by Michael R. Burch Seventy-one? How long can a dewdrop last? —Eihei Dogen Kigen translation of his jisei ......

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...The Beatles split up so mystically -pronto the Vietnam spine came back together some branded the blame into Yoko some tied a wreath of thorns on the reds. Imagine time moving queerly along- Le......

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...Uncooked grains of rice caked our apartment. Dug themselves into my pliable plantar aspect I welcomed you from the bottom of my being, Into my soul, A friend that made me feel whole. You dreamt ......

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...By many aliases they're known: Crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs, yabbies. They abound in brooks, and streams, and swamps, As well as roadside ditches and rice paddies. Their astacology has shown Th......

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...The World That is Located in the Sky David J Walker Witnesses all To the fall of Saigon In 75 And after all Was lost or won What we Though we saw Was not at all What we had Seen\or......

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...I saw one flag raised and another fall I saw the great lie of justice and equity for all I saw a crisis that stopped the world I saw a wall to keep out the cold I saw a man in the outer l......

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...ANTICHRISTIC BOUND: So many questions spilled, Because of how this place feels. Seemly blame who for such beal, And what's the rationale for thus built? It's spiritually a proposed deal, So ......

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...Haiku Translations II Illuminated by the harvest moon smoke is caught creeping across the water... Hattori Ransetsu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Fanning its tail fla......

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...planting the staple of life new beginnings seedlings nurtured by natures flow future hopes nestling in the loam and water sustenance farmers weeding the paddies a crane ......

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...“Get your crap together, we’re leaving,” were the words but the Cobwebs in my brain block out who said them. We started throwing things, clearing out as dumpsters arrived with the Vietnamese. We th......

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...The release of the naked sword of marine oil spills From the window and door of offshore platforms drilling rigs, From the arena of natural oil sips to execute our living meals. Petroleum hydro......

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...golden paddies sway in sync as soft wind strokes their cheeks ~ white herons squawk Date: 08/15/2021 For A Brian Strand 1,2,3,4, or 5 Line Poetry Contest......

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...The big gate swings both ways. Ponderous and slow, with Children hanging from it. High enough at posts end For kids to scramble under, Entering the farmer’s field Where brown and white cows ......

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