Shoaling Poems - Poems about Shoaling

Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about Winter 1

...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about winter, snow, snowball, home, fire, children, fun, frost, hail, fish, ice fishing.

The year’s first snowfall;
such happiness to be
at home in my...

A Shoreless Night

...This night a yellow moon
stalks root and branch.

There’s a waving sagebrush breeze
to twitch wary whiskers
The star-salted fields
and dark wooded islands
merge in a wash
of shoaling shadows....

This Shoreless Night

...This night a yellow moon
stalks root and branch.

There’s a waving sagebrush breeze
to twitch wary whiskers
The star salted fields
and dark wooded islands
merge in a wash
of shoaling shadows....

Go Alone To the Sea

...A briny wind and a shoaling sea shore,
and I sense a cobwebbed dispersing
the shredded unraveling of care.

Go alone to the seas edge,
take no thought or fret to that
swirling margin.
...

Schisms

...We are winded and on the ropes. Backwater banjo boys
strum against us. Clouds feed upon a shoaling light.
A bad day for going out or staying in.
A time to be sleepless. We must live timidly,
or p...

A Night At a Tumbling Edge

...A mottled crab scuppers its sea legs
in fluorescent foam.
Blue pods rattle on green tides.
Bladder wrack, Mermaid’s Hair
washing tangled ankles.
There are voices in my open mouth,
they roll ove...

Pebble Beach Day Out

...Beyond the wave-sacked,
lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug
by the claws of scaly thrashers.

Here they huddle, my blood kin
flogging grim pleasures,
wolfing eggy sandwiches,
dipping tea-stain...

Glory

...The date and time on a digital clock
sings me a sotto voce halleluiah
as I roll over on the surf
of a shoaling shore.

This is how a poem arrives,
In a leaky boat loaded with refugees
all arri...

Evening Watch

...Transports of hereafter
pass one leaf to unclasped heaps.

Flirty winds rearrange the hedgerow plumage,
wisp in gentle whispers.
Chipping sparrows play hid and seek 
with a watery sunli...

Fever

...Transports of hereafter
pass one leaf to unclasped heaps.

Flirty winds rearrange the hedgerow plumage,
wisp in gentle whispers.
Chipping sparrows play hid and seek 
with a watery sunlight.

...

The Sea

...Looking at the calm sea on a sunny day,
I thought of schooling fishes swims around the bay, 
Maybe they are happily shoaling with their friend,
And joking around while following the trail end,

...

Surfacing

...Night is still in its diving bell.

Turn over the body-heat,
tuck head into a shoaling mind.

You imagine the window, the drapes,
the walls, the round walls
all fish-eyed and rising.

Februa...

Marlino

...Two, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees, 
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue...

Night On the Beach

...A mottled crab scuppers its sea legs
in fluorescent foam.
Blue pods rattle on green tides.
Bladder wrack, Mermaid’s Hair
washing tangled ankles.
There are voices in my open mouth,
they roll ove...

Ohio River At Sunset

...lights flicker on the far side
as Kentucky folds its dark robes

a barge nudges
the river into dusk

bundles of clouds kindle

a shimmering pause

the river opens its body
to swallow the s...

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