Ronin Poems - Poems about Ronin

...It was a quaint little shop Looking strangely out of place And the owner was a hermit With a crinkled young old face. He was a man of distinction Of health hearty and hale, Had looked a Haggi......Read the rest...

...At the moment the 7th trumpet blows, Ill be ready. May judgement come. We already know the bottom line about me. No surprises, will wrath recognize me? Will my disgust for humanity weigh heavy? The......Read the rest...

...Ronin Forty-seven men, hereditary nobles, military samurais, serving their master, who was betrayed and killed by another lord, ronin's, they turned masterless, sche......Read the rest...

...I often dream of a forest dark where thoughts may flow where none may follow and stand amidst the foggy bark The owl's screach as if an omen so I trudge against the boundless pain to find my ......Read the rest...

... Dishonorable Tao pen, your fealty strokes are guided by shogun lust for the yen Quill treachery blot your avarice ambition Devious calligraphy be the torn loyalty decision Vai......Read the rest...

...These were letters written in tablets of blood We wrote the pains of yesterday today wittily On this seaside of swaying embargo of tablets She was the song swept in pity and cruelty Daring th......Read the rest...

...Raised to believe many things One which a guy from up high Comes flying out that sky that we all see It had to be literally Did i believe it? Without a doubt i did, Because the one who traine......Read the rest...

...Set in its prurient ways, the sun strips the ronin down in the vicious pause after— the peasant girl stares.......Read the rest...

...True patience means bearing the unbearable Once I Lived bushido At Heart. Served my lord, Wielding carbon And steel In fidelity. Cast aside, I have No master now. I will not tas......Read the rest...

...Without an empress A poet's but a ronin Awaiting his death Daring monsters to slay him While searching for his lady......Read the rest...

...Powerful in many ways. What can it be to the modern ronin? What if it has more to it than a physical appearance? The mind of the ronin is always changing according to the scholar. What if the scholar......Read the rest...

...When a body dies there is a split second slackness and softening in the eyes as the soul leaves the shell a mutual acceptance by body and that which is beyond that the partnership has ended when ......Read the rest...

...There is a price in taking another man’s life and it strikes during the repose of presumed peace waking screams to the half moon sky jaunted movement startling calm water reflections deepening sel......Read the rest...

...Stone pebbles crush beneath my sandals All thoughts of passion and desire now quiet and kept deep within me locked away for now Duty demands my return pace quickening if nothing more than distr......Read the rest...

...High upon this hill of long grass we sit in repose staring off in the distance down upon the valley and village of our youth the sun is setting in the sky and I feel its fading warmth pushing us t......Read the rest...