haiku is essence concept Japanese
haiku should be art dramatic written in
calligraphy stylish riches Japanese
haiku by Terence George Craddock
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On Nippon border
flies a Phoenix bird – Haiku,
now saved from the fire;
like a violin
my reborn soul is singing
tanka by Dumitru Roşu from Haiku: Magazine of Romanian – Japanese Relationships (2007), translated by Dumitru Roşu
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This Is No Haiku
This is no haiku one can expect.
Expressed in one line Japanese verse.
Or separated into lines,
To give an English speaking mind...
Time to find profound definition.
To sit to meditate upon and reflect.
Seventeen sound units,
Divided into three parts...
Five units to start.
Seven in the middle.
And five to end.
With given specific syllables,
To have the reader read again.
Without comprehending,
The meaning a haiku intends.
This is no haiku one can expect.
Expressed in one line Japanese verse.
Or separated into lines,
To give an English speaking mind...
Time to find profound definition.
To sit to meditate upon and reflect.
Although not haiku,
Two shoes tied to one foot...
Does not make the other,
Less aware of obstacles.
Two shoes ties to a pair of feet,
Makes it easier to walk alone
On an adventured path.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Turning Japanese
Ive got your picture
Of me and you
You wrote, I love you.
I love you, too
I sit there staring when theres nothing else to do
Oh, its in color
Your hair is brown
Your eyes are hazel
And soft as clouds
I often kiss you when theres no one else around
Ive got your picture, got your picture
Id like a million of em over myself
I want a doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
Youve got me turning up, Im turning down, Im turning in, and Im turning round
Im turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Ive got your picture, Ive got your picture
Id like a million of them over myself
I want a doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
Youve got me turning up, Im turning down, Im turning in, and Im turning round
Im turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder its dark
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger
Everyone
Thats why Im turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
(think so, think so, think so)
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
Turning japanese, I think Im turning japanese, I really think so
(think so, think so, think so...)
song performed by by Liz Phair
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Haiku no fake who
Go to mountain shout Haiku
Echo back, more Haiku's
haiku by Ken e Hall
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Haiku, stay with me..
Haiku, I feel so lonely..
Haiku, you and me.
haiku by Spiritual Seeker
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rewriting haiku...
the third Sino-Japanese war
erupts in my room
haiku by Chenou Liu
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Japanese haiku
Easy, not like Rubik cube
Use words not fingers
haiku by Ken e Hall
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a haiku said once,
where do you get your haiku?
from a haiku tree
haiku by Chris Bowen
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It withers
the carnation received but
still the separation.
How many trains pass through the station
without you.
tanka by Ana Ruse from Haiku: Magazine of Romanian – Japanese Relationships (2004), translated by Magdalena Dale
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0018 Man Raking Leaves (re Jim Morrison lyric)
The sound of wooden rake scratching concrete.
walk nearer - rustle of dry leaves.
This, the beginning of a Japanese haiku
or maybe a Japanese film -
dry sound first, then rake, then leaves, then man -
that evokes autumn
too near the heart
to need a title
the sound stops. silence. man leans on rake.
then match strikes, there's almost yes an echo
from the dry leaves not yet fallen from the trees
in the forest all around.
then the first tickle in the nostrils
of burning leaves which
the two-year old scrunching through the trees
hand in hand with older sister
will remember all his life
like the silence between
two lines of a haiku or
the silence of the moment when the seasons turn.
and who can say
what the golden-orange-yellow-brown trees
slowly stripping in a rustle as of silken nightgown
to the tune of, more a whisper than a breeze -
what the trees feel
as the incense of their, their, burning leaves
steals like a last caress
for each such faithful
lover?
poem by Michael Shepherd
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Murky sky
the high wind tears
roots and branches
In the ambulance
the first cry of life.
tanka by Vali Iancu from Haiku: Magazine of Romanian – Japanese Relationships (2006), translated by Vasile Moldovan
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A breath of wind—
some flowers dancing a waltz
bent their stems.
Two butterflies met
on the same rose
tanka by Ştefan Gh. Theodoru from Haiku: Magazine of Romanian – Japanese Relationships (2006), translated by Magdalena Dale
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i want to haiku
i told haiku and he said
haiku, chris, haiku
haiku by Chris Bowen
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Autumn dusk
The full moon watching
through the maple tree.
Alone at the window
I remember your face
tanka by Maria Tirenescu from Haiku: Magazine of Romanian – Japanese Relationships (2008), translated by Vasile Moldovan
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In the holiday village
the autumn tempest
throws down two poplar trees—
the people
don't pass the test, either.
tanka by Radu Patrichi from Haiku: Magazine of Romanian – Japanese Relationships (2008), translated by Vasile Moldovan
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Countryside night
Turkeys and chickens
Snooze in the black locust—
The Moon nestled
Among the cherry plums
tanka by Laura Văceanu from Haiku: Magazine of Romanian – Japanese Relationships (2002), translated by Dan Costinaş
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In deep silence
a distinguished violin
at the flea market—
the seller arranging
the strings in the lily’s shadow
tanka by Eduard Țară from Haiku: Magazine of Romanian – Japanese Relationships (2004), translated by Magdalena Dale
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Non-haiku
it was you who one day wrote a haiku
and she counted
on the strictest 5/7/5
or the 5/7/5/77 count
you do not really know what haiku is
you just like to write
and say anything your heart wants to say
in your brokenness
nurturing day and night your broken heart
when she left you for another uglier man
this really hurts
you are smart
the next day, the title of your poem changed
non-haiku for you
how can i argue?
with a smart broken-hearted ass?
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Night volcano
Spouts autumn whispers
In a soft solfeggio—
A field of crazy crickets
Splits the cosmos without teeth
tanka by Florin Vasiliu from Haiku: Magazine of Romanian – Japanese Relationships (1998), translated by Magdalena Dale
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dear Poet Haiku
if me see another copycat haiku
me surely go cuckoo
haiku by Raj Arumugam
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