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Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Life 1
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about clouds, geese, departing, empty nests and huts, lonely, loneliness, drinking alone, sake, longing, loss, death, hawks, the moon, Japanese culture. As clouds drift apart, so we two separate: wild geese departing. —Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch The old nest deserted, how empty now my next-door neighbor’s hut. —Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch Yesterday? Departed, like...

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Categories: clouds, culture, death, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Your Face in the Scudding Cloud
I search for your face in the scudding cloud. The fresh offshore sea breeze tucks at my hair, The timber of your voice, in tearful shroud. I search for your face in the scudding cloud, too painful to watch couples walking proud— the memory of you at heartstrings tear. I search for your face in the scudding cloud. The fresh offshore sea...

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Categories: clouds, emotions,
Form: Triolet



Premium Member A Storm Is Coming
dark clouds are forming a smell of rain in the air calm before the storm ...

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Categories: clouds, creation, nature, peace, rain,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Dancing in the Rain
"Dancing in the rain is how we turn heartache into art."- unknown whine, buzz, warped air wet blanket heat rumbling, skies tear thundering, clouds meet Dance in the rain without'a care...

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Categories: clouds, dance, rain,
Form: Other
Premium Member Clouds
A paper man Under paper clouds The sky is falling and he doesn’t know why His edges are folded He feels he’s undone There isn’t any warmth from a paper sun Cellophane grass Cardboard under feet He has a paper girlfriend With a paper heartbeat His feelings feel flat Just a few wrinkles Paper snow is falling A tinfoil star twinkles A world of my creation I just want to...

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Categories: clouds, angst, anxiety, depression, emotions,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member the contour of clouds
the contour of clouds shapes the mountaintop into a mystery...

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Categories: clouds, nature,
Form: Haiku
clouds of hell
The Cloud of Hell It was a perfect day, cobalt sky and azure, glittering sea When a stygian cloud came from the east, the Lord of Wars spat phlegm, spraying us with horror Inside this monstrosity, body parts, headless, were Flying by the noise was unearthly, and my little dog sheltered under my coat, I bought in Hamburg. When the cloud had...

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Categories: clouds, 8th grade, age, allusion,
Form: ABC
Our Industriously Lazy Orb
The sun wakes slow, a golden yawn, Stretching light across the dawn, Soft and warm, with rays that creep Through windowed eyes from gentle sleep. It drifts and dances, dips and hides, Plays peekaboo with clouds that glide, Bright beams spill in scattered showers, Kissing earth and blooming flowers. It tricks the colors, bends the hue, From green to gold, to deepest blue, Tickling the...

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Categories: clouds, color, environment, life, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memory Clouds
Muting of mums, yet rainbow’s nigh. Memory clouds don’t often lie. Darkened skies of treetops. One drop. Subdued arcs in photo workshop. Release of the silver lining. The truth of matters reclining. Facts are not new violets in rain. Kissing splotched photo, without brain. Virga won’t release history. Weather remains a mystery. Slight chance of weeping; willows fade. Jellyfish don’t reach hunter’s blade. ...

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Categories: clouds, imagery, memory, weather,
Form: Couplet
Dark Steel Day
Skies of gray Skies of gloom Storm clouds say Bringing doom Dark steel day Blustering winds Turmoil cloud Sleeting sends Hail stones loud Dark steel day Storm surrounds Gale force wind Beating down Without end Dark steel day Icy air Breath of steam No despair Just winter’s dream Dark steel day Storms they rise Then they go No surprise If you know Dark steel day Dark steel days ahead and behind Dark steel days on my mind Dark steel days good and...

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Categories: clouds, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clouds
Clouds drift white and soft New ones form, then fade Feathery edges sweep across Silver light glints Grey shadows drift...

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Categories: clouds, nature,
Form: Free verse
clouds
CloUdmisty for Me cloudscape hold space aS 888 ...

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Categories: clouds, analogy, blue, color, environment,
Form: Other
Premium Member Afterlunch
Everyday as I lie on my bed Afterlunch, watching wind in the skies I see clouds in their formless fled Hastily waving goodbyes The picture changes every second It never repeats the same view The light flashes in and I’m beckoned I look to the west to see you But nothing comes out to grant us Dark clouds blur the light sky Like the...

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Categories: clouds, feelings, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Ways Of Not Arriving
My mind drifts loose into the moving art framed by train window. Houses in the field glitch by— brick red roofs and windows that hold sunset across the champaign. I wonder what it’s like to live in that world, where you wake and rest with the sun. My gaze drifts to clouds light as swan feathers. Their dance—effortless, unrepentant as the sunset dyes...

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Categories: clouds, art, fate, life, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Angel How Are You?
My angel how are you? I am OK. Wish you were here now, I miss you very much. Is heaven above the sky? On the other side of the clouds? Way up really - really high? One day I hope to be up there with you. For now I guess I am stuck here on earth. Waiting to be with you everyday, and with every long lonely...

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Categories: clouds, angel, friend, heaven, sky,
Form: Etheree

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