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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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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?