Short Kanji Poems

KOMOREBI

Summer’s dappled light
Sunlight shining through the trees
A kanji construct...

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fragile rice papers
cling to a thrashed wicker wall
and silent gazes
kanji-stained blots become buds
some bloom into ureshii


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1.  "Ureshii" means happiness (Japanese).
2.  Formerly titled Minamisanriku's List....

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If you gaze on my beauty
from my snow white head to the
lakes  at my feet you find peace
deep within your soul

I am a sacred place, one
of three mountains in Japan
wealth* is what my name translates
Mount Fuji thats me


*Present kanji for the word Fuji is wealth or abundant



Penned by: Seren Roberts

Dated: December 17  2012

Contest name:  Natural Dodoitsu. Contest...

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Beings, precious, small, frail, they
walk at a precise pace;
more wary than gaijin with their
large log-like feet,
of the other small precious lives;
the flight of tiny blue and gold faced birds,
the cream dipped moth on an errant breeze.

Close cropped- clean, cut trimmed 
and as clipped as their hedges,
edged like the bamboo fenced trees and lawns ;
the Japanese glide through their Tokyo
as the kanji glides across the page....

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Beings, precious, small, frail, they
walk at a precise pace, more wary, than gaijin* 
with their large log-like feet,
of the other small precious lives,
the flight of tiny, blue and gold-faced, birds,
the cream dipped moth .. on an errant breeze.

Close-cropped, clean-cut, trimmed and clipped as their hedges, 
softly edged like the bamboo fenced trees and lawns;
the Japanese glide through their Tokyo
as the kanji glides across the page....

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