Woodblock Poems - Poems about Woodblock

...Japan At War Japan wages war winds bring clouds lullabying Mount Fuji to sleep. *** Note: Japanese political revolution ended the Edo period (1603-1867),......

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...19th century Veika Hasrgawa made woodblock rints pf the meijimg era painting ogiku style 'mums'* with a single head a flower in Japan so sacred *https://panteek.com/Hasegawa/index.htm......

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...Autumn I looked up to see the day receding from me and it’s falling leaves. *** Note: The 'Alyscamps' is an ancient Roman cemetery founded in the 4th centur......

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...The Great Wave Off Kanagawa Morning and the fishers put out to sea, With joy and farewells to their families, Unaware today, they would meet with fate, To fight for life with a giant rog......

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...Oh! If I were a Japanese painter I could do justice to where I sit now, on top of a rock by the river watching a pale sun weakly glow. Through the overcast it will create a calligrapher's world ......

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...In the beginning was the Word… And only then was the world. Out of chaos and the darkness, Out of nowhere and the blackness… Something more than a miracle happened Filled with warmth and light that s......

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...The artist Hokusai memorialized, In his woodblock print of raging seas, The great wave off Kanagawa, That brought Nippon to its knees. Again the modern rising sun is caught, In the wrath of s......

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...I make this detection upon introspection of the woodblock inside me named soul I'm sightless to beauty on par with a cootie or, moreover, an underground mole I distinguish not burdock from daisy nor......

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