Flowers Spring Poems

Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Spring 2

Matsuo Basho English Translations of haiku about spring, birds, bats, butterflies, flowers, sun, cherry.

Seeing them naked
almost makes me caress
the wanton flowers.
—Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael

Matsuo Basho English Translations: Spring 1

Matsuo Basho Haiku: English Translations of haiku about seasons, spring, rain, moon, flowers, blossoms, wind, river, etc.

Blame the rainy season
for my absence,
old friend Moon.
—Matsuo Basho,

Chanting Spring

Sweet snowdrop bells ring!
The violets are coming
Days are chanting spring.
Crimson camelias call
from dreams near the garden wall.

Gold sun fields await
rich tulips of tomorrow!
Lily's never late.
Then

Spring Flood

Last year the fields were dust and bone,
The rivers whispered in dirt and stone.
The sun stood high, a ruthless king
A crown of fire, heat never-ending.

It

Nowruz

The mirror breathes beneath my palm—
twelve days polishing chrome and calm.

Sabzeh¹ sprouts in jam-jar earth,
each blade a green and tender birth—

a promise held through patient

Spring in Your Eyes

Spring in your eyes –
I feel it there,
the way they smile.
Like winter's heavy cloak,
the days of stress,
simply erased.

I fall in love every spring.
primavera –
the sound,
my

Chinese Translations IV

CHINESE TRANSLATIONS IV

These are English translations of Chinese poems about nature, the seasons, autumn, winter, spring, night, time, tears, flowers and love. 

Seeking a Mooring
by

She was a soul of morning, with light flowing from her skin like a golden spring

She was a soul of morning, with light flowing from her skin like a golden spring,
Joy blooming in her chest like flowers dancing on fields

Snippets of Spring vol 1

Blakean ghosts' boasts..frollicking in rollicking

Rolling hillock hosts..ripe shenanigans..perry toasts

Believing in hefty heaving heroes

Hallowed harbingers..halcyon hedgerows

Harbouring tranches of branches..ferry very merry berries

Majestic mosaic montage barge of

Majesty of Spring’s Tapestry

Meandering meadows broken by a tossing garbling brook…boulders embossing...marbling and moss flossing

Awoken whispers spoken..cantankerous coughing eddy wheezes..then a curmudgeonly icy mirror hush

Reckoning breezes yield cats'

Come, Graceful Brittlebush

Come, graceful brittlebush
   And creamy globe mallow blooms.
The winds of spring call you
   Again from the sandy tombs.

Come, you dashing lupine

spring

spring rain brings flowers,
colors burst all around you-
beauty fills the air.

spring gardens

flowers standing tall
smiling to the pretty sun ~
colorful gardens

spring

drip, drop, pitter-patter
                      

Spring Monoku