Matsuo Basho: English translations 3
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about birds, flowers, candles, life, death.
Naptime!
But my drowsiness is nixed
by busybody warblers.
—Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch
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Categories:
slimed, bird, culture, death, flower,
Form: Haiku
Multi-Di-Minstrel Message, Reprisal
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Salutations!
Are we all just a figment of GOD's imagination?
Or just a simple angle of schematical equation.
Perhaps, we’re just a footnote in God’s mental thots?
He’s gotta BIG BA...
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Categories:
slimed, celebration, life,
Form: Spoken Word
Tench
...There is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun,
barred by spindle trees and the last
of summer's brindled reeds
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilli...
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Categories:
slimed, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Eliza Rose
...Wind-gathered winter leaves hide the worn
Inscription; the birth, the death the epitaph
On show for all who take this path
To know Sir John is buried here
Beneath his coat of arms.
This ba...
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Categories:
slimed, christian, death, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
The Village On the Water Vi
...But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered
In the reverberating stillness of the
Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
His impassioned lusts -- his penchant...
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Categories:
slimed, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse
Of Lies Told That Once Destroyed Innocent Girls' Lives
...https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-convergence-of-the-twain/
The Convergence of the Twain
--- By Thomas Hardy
(Lines on the loss of th...
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Categories:
slimed, appreciation, art, betrayal, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Mud Larking
...MUD LARKING
Since a kid having a habit of treasure hunt,
whenever got a chance to go on riverside
picking pebbles slimed with pale mud,
scavenging for precious something submerg...
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Categories:
slimed, 12th grade, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Purple To Dust
...Nothing this woman does surprises me.
The tip of my tongue still alive
with her taste; with salt
from the reservoir gathered
in passion and pondered by three sheepish freckles
left blushing n...
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Categories:
slimed, divorce,
Form: Free verse
What I Met During My Trip To Birthday
...As I was walking swiftly
Just to reach Bajoga early
To see what a hot birthday
Will be chucked in the day
Of 27th of the october,
I collided with a creature
Seemingly so calm in nature
And so ...
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Categories:
slimed, anniversary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Dream Series: Yukiko and Tsuki
...Terrible dreams three days running, today's was an unbearable doozy. I woke up in a hotel room and had lost Tsuki and Yukiko. I had to get dressed and go out in the world searching for them.
But ...
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Categories:
slimed, dog, dream, fear, horror,
Form: Prose Poetry
For the New Torch Bearers
...FOR THE NEW TORCH BEARERS (REVISITED)
(APROPOS MLK: PART 2)
They voyaged over many tempestuous oceans and seas;
They were pursued in woods by vicious dogs—dogs
Salivating stale slave...
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Categories:
slimed, allegory, analogy, celebration, hope,
Form: Prose Poetry
Est'Bel Strolls
...Urges ushered Est’bel out of her abode –
a cottage cobbled together from cobwebs and clapboard –
and she scuttled forth,
her nesty hair tousled
by a leaf-laced breeze
In her bony hands she cl...
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Categories:
slimed, magic, moon, night, woman,
Form: Free verse
Food Fight
...There once was a fight on my plate
In front of my face while I ate
The Broccoli on the left picked up its Spear
And stabbed the Corn on the right, right in the Ear
The Avocado Artichoked the ...
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Categories:
slimed, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Alien Danger
...Granger was in danger,
An alien landed in his yard,
So he slimed him with his slime-gun,
The alien running hard.
The alien jumped into his rocket ship
And pulled the portals down,
He blasted ...
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Categories:
slimed, children, funny, space,
Form: Rhyme
Slippery Sloppery
...A slippery sloppery slipping snail
Slithered slimed and slid on the floor
Feeling hurried harried hungry and helpless
As starlings screeched spiraled and saw
That slippery sloppery slipping snail...
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Categories:
slimed, funny,
Form: Alliteration
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