Best Kanji Poems

Many times the ocean 
has saved Nippon,     pearl of the sea,
an oceanic symbiosis  a speck in a fecund see.
The dikes of man  such miniscule plans to   hold back the tide. 
The throngs, each and all  ...

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fragile rice papers
cling to a thrashed wicker wall
and silent gazes
kanji-stained blots become buds
some bloom into ureshii


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1.  "Ureshii" means happiness (Japanese).
2.  Formerly titled Minamisanriku's List....

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Tufted white-tops
on pale beige staggered-stalks,
the coneflowers crowns 
dressed the perennial bed;
leaning precariously against
the conical mushroomesque birdbath.

Snow, soft and wet wrapped the grape arbor like ermine;
making trellises reminiscent of Kanji on a blank page.
Fragile, frozen, flowers hung decoratively,
from frail clematis twined about cedar posts.

Brittle brown maple...

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Hey I wrote a sonnet. The subject is the agony of leaving behind friends after tenth grade,cause i am leaving tenth grade this year.Its my first sonnet,tell me how is it Rate it out of ten

Few months, till we become unknown strangers
Like a book is...

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forgive me master
while you at your desk
took private your thoughts

i dared trespass...
approaching silent
i slipped your mind
in the rays of sun
i came from behind

the master
and I at his desk
...forgive me...

Ancient stokes do see
hands on the brush
playing cards of kanji
writing on my skin
in the After of Life
blood...

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It’s frustrating, isn’t it? 
Creating meta hypotheses based on observations and data, 
but not knowing whether they really fit or not? 
Quantum particles change behavior when you are looking at them versus when you are not. 
Cell mechanics will have you up in theoretical knots....

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Sotoba Komachi is a modern Noh play by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). Mishima's play is based on an ancient work by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (1333-1384). The first kanji means "stupa" (the dome of a shrine) while the second kanji means "belle" or "beautiful woman." So the title...

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i seem to remember
a sunroof sky
full of kanji and silk
wisteria dancing across the wind
my daughter laughing in that so saturated face
as friend and i sit down to a morning game
i swore i would take advantage of his saké rejuvenation

i seem to remember
the taste of my...

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If you gaze on my beauty
from my snow white head to the
lakes  at my feet you find peace
deep within your soul

I am a sacred place, one
of three mountains in Japan
wealth* is what my name translates
Mount Fuji thats me


*Present kanji for the word Fuji is wealth...

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Beings, precious, small, frail, they
walk at a precise pace, more wary, than gaijin* 
with their large log-like feet,
of the other small precious lives,
the flight of tiny, blue and gold-faced, birds,
the cream dipped moth .. on an errant breeze.

Close-cropped, clean-cut, trimmed and clipped as their hedges,...

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A cathedral of cedar spires,
branches, lifted upward toward a robins' egg sky,
adorned the gravel trail;
on the way to the hot springs 
deep in the heart
of the Japanese alps.

Fallen cedar fronds impressed the surface of the path
like kanji on an aged sheet of rice paper.
Further, upward,...

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Beings, precious, small, frail, they
walk at a precise pace;
more wary than gaijin with their
large log-like feet,
of the other small precious lives;
the flight of tiny blue and gold faced birds,
the cream dipped moth on an errant breeze.

Close cropped- clean, cut trimmed 
and as clipped as their...

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Yi feng xìn

Dear Motherland,
hope meagre moments yet dance
throwing taunted thrills
to the fostering figs?

Dear Motherland,
do the sassy streams with flaps
on diminuendo and crescendos' rhythm
yet maintain the lusty lyric?

Dear Motherland,
does frolic Kanji dam
basked in mushy currents
wins the mercies of fame yet?

Say nought, dear Motherland,
moments are now cleavages...

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KOMOREBI

Summer’s dappled light
Sunlight shining through the trees
A kanji construct...

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