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by Beppe Wolgers

Hhh

by Mother Goose

by Elizabeth Jennings

 Answers

by Muhammad Ali

Me — wheee!

by Derek Walcott

 The Sea Is History

by A R Ammons

 One failure on
Top of another

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 HAND in hand! and lip to lip!

by Jack Kerouac

 The taste
 of rain
—Why kneel?

by Matsuo Basho

 A bee
staggers out
 of the peony.

by Louise Bogan

 At midnight tears
Run in your ears.

by Muhammad Ali

I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

by Kobayashi Issa

 Napped half the day;
no one 
punished me!

by Yosa Buson

 Old well,
a fish leaps--
 dark sound.

by Kobayashi Issa

 In spring rain
a pretty girl
 yawning.

by Yosa Buson

 Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
 open.

by Jack Kerouac

 Birds singing
 in the dark
—Rainy dawn.

by Kobayashi Issa

 Not very anxious
to bloom,
my plum tree.

by Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings

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one
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by Barry Tebb

 Too much gone wrong – 

No Muse, no song.

by Emily Dickinson

 Society for me my misery
Since Gift of Thee --

by Kobayashi Issa

 How much
are you enjying yourself,
tiger moth?

by Kobayashi Issa

 I'm going out,
flies, so relax,
make love.

by Yosa Buson

 Evening wind:
water laps
 the heron's legs.

by Richard Brautigan

 Forget love 
I want to die 
in your yellow hair

by Emily Dickinson

 Is Immortality a bane
That men are so oppressed?