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Japan At War

...Japan At War

Japan wages war
winds bring clouds lullabying
Mount Fuji to sleep.
            ***

Note:   
   Japanese political revolution ended the Edo period (1603-1867),...

Categories: woodblock, art, history, war, world
Form: Haiku

Clerihew Hasegawa

...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...

Categories: woodblock, art, flower, people,
Form: Clerihew

Autumn

...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...

Categories: woodblock, autumn,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa

...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...

Categories: woodblock, destiny, fate, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Calligrapher

...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 ...

Categories: woodblock, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art,
Form: Sonnet

In the Beginning Was the Word

...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...

Categories: woodblock, devotion, god, life, love,
Form: Free verse

Japan the Great Wave

...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...

Categories: woodblock, natural disasters
Form: Rhyme

Wooden Soul

...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...

Categories: woodblock, funny, introspectionme,
Form: Rhyme