Haiku 08 (Masaoka Shiki Poems)
I turn my backon Buddha and facethe cool moon (Masaoka Shiki)
I turn my backon Buddha and facethe cool moon (Masaoka Shiki)
I turn my backon Buddha and facethe cool moon(Masaoka Shiki)
Now, when our Lord was come to eighteen years,The King commanded that there should be builtThree stately houses, one of ...
Round Rajagriha five fair hills arose,Guarding King Bimbas?ra's sylvan town:Baibh?ra green with lemon-grass and palms;Bipulla, at whose foot thin SarsutiSteals ...
In which calm home of happy life and loveLigged our Lord Buddha, knowing not of woe,Nor want, nor pain, nor ...
(THE GRAVEYARD OF SPOON RIVER. TWO VOICES ARE HEARD BEHIND A SCREEN DECORATED WITH DIABOLICAL AND ANGELIC FIGURES IN VARIOUS ...
(Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! On ...
Onward he passed, Exceeding sorrowful, seeing how men Fear so to die they are afraid to fear, ...
I If I were in Japan today, In little Japan today, I'd watch the sampan-rowers ride On Yokohama ...
It was noon by the sun; we had finished our game,And was passin' remarks goin' back to our claim;Jones was ...
I O-Shichi, all my heart today Is dreaming of your fate; And of your little house that ...
Said the Presidential SkeletonI won't sign the billSaid the Speaker skeletonYes you willSaid the Representative SkeletonI objectSaid the Supreme Court ...
(_In Japan_) Where the fair golden idols Sit in darkness and in silenceWhile the temple drum beats solemnly and slow; ...
In the old raftered loftWhere the winds blowLike thin querulous voicesOut of long ago,And the cobwebs swayTo and fro, to ...
(HIROSHIMA, JAPAN, 1905) Pale sampans up the river glide, With set sails vanishing and slow; In ...
(_To A. H. R._)Out on the sea the sampans ride And the mountains brim with mist and sun.O we are ...
Against the eagledHemisphereI lean my eagerEditorial earAnd what the devilYou think I hear?I hear the BeatNo not of the heartBut ...
Long have I searched, Cathedral shrine, and hall,To find a symbol, from the hand of art,That gave the full expression ...
Woman, thou shalt say to son:'I, the blood, got thee uponNothing but a phallic stone.This, no more-a phallic stone.Now I ...
1892 "And there is a Japanese idol at Kamakura" Oye who treated the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day, ...
Under the image of Buddha all these spring flowers seem a little tiresome. (Kobayashi Issa)
(for matt - 15) in the first seven years you choose your howdah having by then bare inklings of a ...
Elan that lifts me above the clouds into pure space, timeless, yea eternal Breath transmuted into words Transmuted back to ...
"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..." I came home and found a lion in my living room Rushed out on ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a thing, ...
I On the grey rock of Cashel the mind's eye Has called up the cold spirits that are born When ...
"Put up the sword!" The voice of Christ once more Speaks, in the pauses of the cannon's roar, O'er fields ...
All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, ...
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