amidst bright colors
and fragrant aromas:
sense overload.
Flower Sellers [Haiku]
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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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Enshrouded Mountains [Haiku]
the mountain trail
is engulfed in clouds;
a loud owl hoot.
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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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“Feeling for the Farmers” by Li Shen [w/ Audio]
Hoeing farmer, as heat haze roils,
His flowing sweat waters the soil.
All those who know food on a plate
Should feel each grain comes of that toil.
NOTE: The title of this poem (悯农, or Mǐn Nóng) is often translated as “Toiling Farmers,” though “Compassion for Farmers” or “Pity Farmers” would be closer to the literal translation.
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Invisible River [Haiku]
burbling sounds:
water runs - unseen -
between polished rocks.
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Desert Hedge [Lyric Poem]
On the arid
desert's edge,
Stands a scrubby
shrubby hedge
That's always green
and never brown,
But it turns black
when Sun goes down.
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