Yamaguchi Poems - Poems about Yamaguchi

...Poems about Things that Break III These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old ha......Read the rest...

...Poems about Things that Break I These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old habi......Read the rest...

...My most popular poems on the Internet (I) A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lo......Read the rest...

...Poems about the Coronavirus I yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1 by michael r. burch plagued by the Plague i plague the goldfish with my verse yet another iffy coronavirus haiku ......Read the rest...

...Epigrams by Michael R. Burch Negligibles by Michael R. Burch Show me your most intimate items of apparel: begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ... Negotiables by Michael R......Read the rest...

...yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1 by michael r. burch plagued by the Plague i plague the goldfish with my verse yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2 by michael r. burch sunflowe......Read the rest...

...R.I.P. by Michael R. Burch When I am lain to rest and my soul is no longer intact, but dissolving, like a sunset diminishing to the west... and when at last before His throne my past is ......Read the rest...

...Yamaguchi Seishi haiku modern English translations Grasses wilt: the braking locomotive grinds to a halt. —Yamaguchi Seishi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch Ceaseless chaos— ice floes......Read the rest...

...These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku. While you decline to cry, high on the mountainside a single stalk of plumegrass wilts. —O......Read the rest...

...Yamaguchi Seishi haiku translations Grasses wilt: the braking locomotive grinds to a halt. ? Yamaguchi Seishi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch Ceaseless chaos? ice floes clash in the......Read the rest...

...Grasses wilt: the braking locomotive grinds to a halt —Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch Oh, fallen camellias, if I were you, I'd leap into the torrent! —Takaha Shugyo, trans......Read the rest...

...According to Michael R. Burch: What are haiku? In Japanese hai means "unusual" and ku means "verse" or "strophe." So haiku are, literally, unusual verses. Sir George Sansom called haiku "little dr......Read the rest...