Poems About Things That Break Iii
...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...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, break up, farewell, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break I
...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...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, break up, depression, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
...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...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, internet, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About the Coronavirus I
...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 ...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving,
Form: Haiku
Short Stuff: Epigrams
...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...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, body, clothes, death, eulogy,
Form: Epigram
More Iffy Coronavirus Haiku
...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...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, america, death, eulogy, health,
Form: Haiku
Rip
...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 ...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, death, dream, funeral, grave,
Form: Verse
Yamaguchi Seishi Haiku Translations
...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...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, animal, earth, nature, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Ancient Haiku
...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...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, culture, imagery, inspiration, international,
Form: Haiku
Yamaguchi Seishi Haiku Translations
...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...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, humanity, imagery, military, ocean,
Form: Haiku
Haiku Translations of the Oriental Masters
...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...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, animal, beauty, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
Haiku and Thought
...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...
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Categories:
yamaguchi, allegory, analogy, , literature,
Form: I do not know?