a crisp trail
worn into the grass;
i move, butterfly-like.
The Well-Worn Path [Haiku]
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“A Coat” by William Butler Yeats [w/ Audio]
I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.
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Creepers [Haiku]
the tree’s trunk
engulfed by vines & leaves, though
little light shines through
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Sonnet 24 by William Shakespeare [w/ Audio]
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And perspective it is best the painter's art.
For through the painter must you see his skill
To find where your true image pictur'd lies,
Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,
That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.
Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
Are windows to my breast, wherethrough the sun
Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee.
Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art;
They draw but what they see, know not the heart.
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Flower Sellers [Haiku]
amidst bright colors
and fragrant aromas:
sense overload.
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Fly [Haiku]
frenetic fly,
spastically flying loops:
lands from whence it flew.
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“Goose Chant” by Luo Binwang [w/ Audio]
Goose, Goose, Goose,
Look skyward and let your song loose.
White feathers float on the green lake
As red feet paddle through clear waves.
NOTE: This poem’s title is often translated as “An Ode to the Goose” but the Chinese title 咏鹅 (Yǒng é) is “Chant[ing] Goose.”
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The Flow Slows [Haiku]
seated on the wall,
beside the rushing creek,
the world slows.
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“A Burnt Ship” by John Donne [w/ Audio]
Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning could be rescued from the flame,
Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came
Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;
So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
They in the sea being burnt,
They in the burnt ship drown'd.
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Flashy Lascar [Senryū]
tiny lascar,
sitting on a small leaf,
not blending -- at all.
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