Hokku Poems in Four Seasons (Yosa Buson Poems)
SpringThe year's first poem done,with smug self confidencea haikai poet.Longer has become the daytime;a pheasant is flutteringdown onto the bridge.Yearning ...
SpringThe year's first poem done,with smug self confidencea haikai poet.Longer has become the daytime;a pheasant is flutteringdown onto the bridge.Yearning ...
Science! thou mirror of celestial type Wherein e'en mortals may discerning see,If they with steady perseverance seek, The will and purpose of ...
COME blest Urania! thou alone canst soarWith dauntless wing through regions unexplor'dBy mortal eye, and thou alone canst paintThe wonders ...
EYES always open eyesonions we were all found undereyes never in a hurry wait for meblink at the smash preserve ...
I've read, my friend, of Dioclesian,And many another noble Grecian,Who wealth and palaces resigned,In cots the joys of peace to ...
The world is covered with cradlesthat sing in the night.Man lives accumulating blocks of stonefor the houses of the future ...
LO! what descending cherub, robed in light,With dazzling beams o'erwhelms the sight?Is it a Genius of th' etherial spheres?Or Angel ...
Do you wish the world were better?Let me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them always ...
all is still on this starless night the mountain waits quiescent as a cat smoothing crag and chasm to a ...
Lives waiting huddled in our houses school cut short cancellations Watching the weather forecast another log on the fire snow ...
After getting home driving in the gossamer snow the dance of the crystals falling in the air accumulating on the ...
The seduction of the season Christmas time of year ads on the TV, calling us to spend less that is ...
Under the leaves, the stems the broad, dark-summer maples little pearls, half-droplets like upside-down bell curves heavy droplets stirring shaking, ...
How the dove must have felt, falling from heaven, onto the Lord rising from the waters of the Jordan So ...
watching the snow, slowly starting accumulating snow, first on the lawn, building, gathering on the needles broad, small, firs, pines ...
It's snowing now as I write this note. Little temporal curtains of snow like pages of paper which materialize and ...
Snow in the air long before the first flakes started their long fall from the heavens snow in the feel, ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Do you wish the World were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends ...
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