Waka Poems - Poems about Waka

...Ono no Komachi Translations These are my modern English translations of the ancient Japanese poems of Ono no Komachi… "It's over!" Your words drizzle like dismal rains, bringing tears, as I ......Read the rest...

...Fluttering fireflies Above the creek baited sly Hoodwinked in high skies Genji's ruthless ruse Foiling Hotaru's scheme In summer rains' reprise Pattering musical notes On screen to wilful......Read the rest...

...Four on the Floor Lying between primes 3/5/7 4x4 cube drives over waka, haiku, senryu, tanka, to chime, sublime eloquence.......Read the rest...

...[Two waka in memory of those who escaped California wildfires and those who didn't make it out. 5,7,5,7,7] A shower of stars? Dry forest is ablaze now. We wander blinded. ......Read the rest...

...Message to you Tanka poem By Michelle Morris 04/12/2020 You are out of reach. Communication is done. How can we talk now? Can you read my mind, lovely? I love and miss you dearly. © Mich......Read the rest...

...Tainui, that great waka in the sky - the flight of the Koru carrying me into the far orbits seven miles high at altitude above the Tasman Sea. And on its metallic longrider wing I gaze......Read the rest...

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...Blog chatter set off Tanka with kala for us to think and ink well the art of Japan's waka 31 syllable to fit in 5 lines ( Note :Kala is the name of the teacher)......Read the rest...

...To a Daughter More Precious than Gems by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume loose translation by Michael R. Burch Heaven's cold dew has fallen— and thus another season arrives. Oh, my child living ......Read the rest...

...There was a dear who had a ridge that she perched from It was where she felt welcome Below there was a road Where cars must go. They would be driving in singles and pairs Going too fast th......Read the rest...

...These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku. While you decline to cry, high on the mountainside a single stalk of plumegrass wilts. —O......Read the rest...

...As I slept in isolation my desired beloved appeared to me; therefore, dreams have become my reality and consolation. —Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch Submit to you—is that wh......Read the rest...

...Ngwaga e be ele e se me ka geke ipona tlhakatlhakanong Kgwedi txe mmalwa fela gore ke fetse atla tse pedi Maahlo a be a bona fela tsa mono kgabagareng Kgopolo ere nna ke sa nkga mekgatho Efela pe......Read the rest...

...Musical love Our love forged on the Mount Fuji Dining, wining and dancing to the beats of Garbage Fuji Many times shot were we with the film Fuji… We sit crooning to the songs of apala Where......Read the rest...

...welcoming the sun winter gives way to snow tears......Read the rest...