Autumn Woman Poems

Burnt sienna waves, laughing – pleasant days,
Full of light, seas infused with hope,
Soft sounds of roaring peace, still and cool,
Falling like stars who have mastered...

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A ray has passed, over the field of our forgetting,
Since I haven't sprinkled, my love, onto the evening's canvas, our shared dream,
And from outside comes...

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There comes a time in a man's life when he sees only one woman,
The others become shadows, faded outlines in a forgotten world.
In those moments,...

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Ono no Komachi Translations

These are my modern English translations of the ancient Japanese poems of Ono no Komachi…

"It's over!"
Your words drizzle like dismal rains,
bringing tears,
as...

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Your beauty flows,
With your hair,
Like the waves,

Candlelit pleasure,
Violins of the moonlight,
Jazz in november,
The irises a lovely sight,

Ive never swayed in the vineyard,
Until with the moon,
Your...

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The Vikings battle cry was ferocious and ear piercing.
Autumn woman applied her paints as she heard them enter her forest. 
She was ready to rip...

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Autumn waltzes,
in the maple trees,
As the ballerinas,
And gypsies,
Are combing,
The waves and their hair,
With their love,

Let the golden leaves,
Bow in the vines,
Of the wind,

And the vineyards,
Warm...

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Let the moon dream,
In our night sky,
So your sigh,
May caress its stars,

Ballerina, in the rainbow hours,
Your sighs bloom,
Like the roses,
Elegant, sweet, and rugged,
Glowing upon your...

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Autumn lakes,
Leaves upon the green,
Crescent sweet in the sky,
and Your Beauty glows,
In all the stars

Mango wind,
Lilly in your hair, irises upon the shore,
Hem sweet in...

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She felt the lavendar sunset,
Caress her love,
Like an evening gown,

In the maples autumn,
Silhouette,
She stretched her hair,
And crescent hips,
To the blush of moon,

Golden leaves,
Upon the green,
And...

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She must of been,
A crescent moon,
The way she shimmered,
And glows,
With the Autumn hues,
Her love,
Luminously sweet,
With the palm,
And maples trees
Reynaldo Casison...

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She must of been,
An autumn maple tree,
The way her canopy,
Embraces the green hues,
Innate gold,
And sheds her cares,
Like dresses and leaves
Reynaldo Casison...

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How do the green clovers,
feel,
In the Autumn sun,
And Moonlight,
Embraced by the high maples,
caress of mango wind,
And a sweetly beautiful lady,

They feel the blush,
Of her Beauty,
Its...

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She loves the unique beauty,
Of bridges,
In the intimacy,
Of evening,
And,
Moonlit midnight dawns,
She sashays in casual attire,
To satiate her desire,
For a warm embrace,
Love,
And peace,
To kiss her tender...

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Up the wooden hill
where the fir tree spills
rustic autumn and soil,
cries of "The pale one".
All in arms,
pitchforks at the ready.
"Burn the witch! Be gone!"

An equivocal...

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