Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haku about Summer 1
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about summer, life, sun, sunshine, sunlight, melons, willows, rain, rivers, hats, shade, sad, sadness.
Such coolness
when shouldered:
the summer’s fir...
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Categories:
slightness, horse, life, river, sad,
Form: Haiku
Inextricably Untethered
...I've struck a snag after a long develops steps.
To a recent attitude over alliance depth,
I investigate this frightening atmosphere.
On top, winning expresses me insecure.
Becau...
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Categories:
slightness, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Blinded By the Black
...We surround you
our tepid cones of darkness
bastardize your lights to greys
watching as you fight against us
but we consume
our trailing tepid tendrils
slither in your slightness
our darkness ...
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Categories:
slightness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wonder If There Is Bad Graces
...we have all heard by the grace of God
an elegant form in movement smooth
and will he grace us with his presence
gracefully surrendered
why do we use the ethereal to explain
a slightness of perfe...
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Categories:
slightness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Love, Me
...They say
how wonderful love is
it scents the hair, tingles warm and sensual
holds every breath in pleasurable pause,
the body blends with the soul and mind
at the slightness of its touch;
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Categories:
slightness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Spell
...Cast sullenly my line of self submit
accentuates addendum, not as wit.
The vast confront, an erring of God's cross
in tune not with repent, subservient loft!
Ah happiness, thy truth is so exalt
that...
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Categories:
slightness, forgiveness, friendship, happiness, love,
Form: Rhyme
By Daylight View (Alliteration)
...Spring showering shores
rabbits running round in amusing
the glitter great glacier
been sparkle spends slightness by branches
wind witnesses willingly be affections
In reflection raised recreat...
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Categories:
slightness, devotion, life, time,
Form: Alliteration