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Hokusai Poems - Poems about Hokusai


Premium Member Intifada
...(“Glimpsing Hokusai”, 2017, original encaustic) Intifada aka “Kill the Jews!” While we were sleeping content in our lives Something dark and ugly was growing inside Spreading across t......

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Categories: hokusai, fear, hate, youth,
Form: Narrative
Haiku Translations by Michael R Burch
...Am I really this old, so many ghosts beckoning? —Michael R. Burch Sleepyheads! I recite my haiku to the inattentive lilies. —Michael R. Burch Stillness: the sound of petals drifting dow......

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Categories: hokusai, death, god, grave, life,
Form: Haiku



Haiku Translations III
...These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others. Am I really this old, so many ghosts beck......

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Categories: hokusai, blue, life, night, old,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Risk Is All
...("Glimpsing Hokusai", 2017, original encaustic) The Risk Is All The wages of sin is death. And yet so many flirt with it. People who think they can maintain the upper hand. Th......

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Categories: hokusai, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Clerihew Marquet
...Matisse pupil Albert Marquet compared with Japanese master Hokusai said to have poetic guile sans unneeded detail was his style......

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Categories: hokusai, art, people,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member Japan At War
...Japan At War Japan wages war winds bring clouds lullabying Mount Fuji to sleep. *** Note: Japanese political revolution ended the Edo period (1603-1867),......

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Categories: hokusai, art, history, war, world
Form: Haiku
Aftermaths
...Some aftermaths burst unseen within, as aftershocks of sorrow, arriving as electric jolts that crash through your skin. Those shockwaves subside, twinkle out like embers; the Kleenex runs out......

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Categories: hokusai, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prose Poem Hokusai
...The melodic chords at finger tips , drift back and forth into a song 'ere long-the vivid images in a painter's eye transformed, splash upon canvas- the nouns,adjectives memorable verbs from po......

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Categories: hokusai, art, inspiration, word play,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Shantelle
...SHANTELLE Made of stone, Shantelle - a tower. Castille of knightly breeding, she causes a coward to cower or a headstone as one’s marquee. Marble robes of nobility - curves like pert Kanaga......

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Categories: hokusai, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
...The Great Wave Off Kanagawa Morning and the fishers put out to sea, With joy and farewells to their families, Unaware today, they would meet with fate, To fight for life with a giant rog......

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Categories: hokusai, destiny, fate, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Japan the Great Wave
...The artist Hokusai memorialized, In his woodblock print of raging seas, The great wave off Kanagawa, That brought Nippon to its knees. Again the modern rising sun is caught, In the wrath of s......

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Categories: hokusai, natural disasters
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Hundred Poems
...Life in all its aspects- poems explained in art. Ekphrasis After Hokusai......

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Categories: hokusai, art, life, on writing
Form: Lanterne

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