Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Life 1
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about clouds, geese, departing, empty nests and huts, lonely, loneliness, drinking alone, sake, longing, loss, death, hawks, the moon, Japanese culture.
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Categories:
unbar, culture, death, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Haiku
Bitter
...When the moon turns bitter and cold,
The night starts whispering tales untold.
No caress remains without a scar—
No hand can heal what nights unbar.
You're not just thirsty for the day,
But fo...
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Categories:
unbar, dark, emotions, grief, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Castle Home
...Bright banners fluttered high in the warm summer breeze
guards in armor bright do walk the battlements high
no travelers pass in through the gate
the portcullus is down barring the way
not lo...
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Categories:
unbar, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Kiss
...she leans back and points bare toes at clouds
chains creak their rhythmic squeak, hypnotic loud
taken aback, her hair sails slipstream flung
downstream freedom for a moment hung
in mid-air - eart...
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Categories:
unbar, growth, introspection, life, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Advent Morning Star
...ADVENT MORNING STAR
The morning star shines salient and bright
Alone against a colour graded sky
In transient intermission day from night
When worlds half dream, reality yet nigh
The trees -...
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Categories:
unbar, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Morning Star
...WINTER MORNING STAR
The morning star shines salient and bright
Alone against a colour graded sky
In transient intermission day from night
When worlds half dream, reality yet nigh
The trees d...
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Categories:
unbar, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Where Am I From
...Where am I from? A mulatto.
Is there a place to call my home?
“Hey piggy!!” the blacks say to me
"You monkey", words of the white.
If the velvety black skies
give room for stars to bloom,
Why...
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Categories:
unbar, racism,
Form: Free verse
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Twenty
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty
Trillion pin-pricks of the sticky mists surround the mosque’s turret
Shrouding the pallid angular slabs of the Faithfuls outlet:
Even the muzzled pit-...
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Categories:
unbar, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
Funny
...Quite pliable plump.
Makes soulful sough souffle sound.
Tonic topical unbar country funny....
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Categories:
unbar, father
Form: Haiku