Nature Woman Poems

The throne of the crow 
Dominates their subjects below
Scanning each plot of sow 
For the murders they can overthrow.
The two withered branches from the tallest...

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No matter who you are
No matter what you've done
I have done worse 
But positivity marches on 
Recognize the problem 
Karmic people are negative 
And they...

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It started with a blank canvas,
the world I should make but I am anxious.
Making fields of pretty flowers,
to the deep blue seas takes many hours.
Mountains...

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I saw a lady.
Her face was a rainbow.
Some spots were sunny, some shady.
Her glow followed her wherever she happened to go.
Didn't she look so pretty?
Her...

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Refrain:

In these mountains, far from the sea,
Where hearts have heard the tales,
Screams a lady, she’s wild and free,
Her life bears in details.

Though we never named...

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Presumptuous to think
that all should be subject
to man’s will – We highest
on the Pecking Order! Till
nature shouts her feminine trill,
has her monarch fill, clawing
back, with...

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The three poetry forms used are haiku, tanka and sijo.


whirling in daisies
multicolored blooms in hair
summertime affair

Caressing petals
Light steps frolic in beauty
as breezes chase blooms.
Raspberry days...

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She is like the Dandelion
Tenacious and Bright 
Growing with Curiosity 
Inquisitively Seeking
As She Peers up at the World
Yearning to know all
Delicate yet Tough
Bruises come so...

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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 fine beauty,
Is like a bouquet,
Of flowers,
That kisses the soul,
And its skies,
With love
Reynaldo Casison...

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Beautiful lady,
Youre lovely and unique,
Like Beauty,
Like Beauty,
that you seek,

In Nature,
In jazz cafes,
Upon palm kissed shores,

Beautiful lady,
Youre lovely and unique,
Like Beauty,
Like Beauty,
That you seek,

Gazing at the...

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Crescent moon,
Deep sweet rain,
Glistening seashells,
Upon the shore,

Its lovely,
Youre in love with me,
And Im in love with you,
In the sweet moonlight,
In the sweet moonlight,

You embrace me,
From...

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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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Lovely lady,
I'll sway around,
In stillness,
I'll sway around,
With you,

Red roses, orange sunflowers,
Purple, lavendar irises,

I'll sway around,
Sway around,
With you,

Lovely lady,
Sway around,
Like fine wine,
With your love all around,
Lay...

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Our gaze,
Kisses,
Sweetly,
Like wild and enchanted,
Sunflowers,
With the tenderness of irises,
Ethereally,
Your Beauty sways in all the flowers,

Our hips,
Glow with their crescent honey,
While the petals delicate curves,
Sway with...

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