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Kanji Poems - Poems about Kanji

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

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Categories: kanji, summer, sun, tree,
Form: Haiku
Sotoba Komachi
...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) whi......

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Categories: kanji, beautiful, beauty, girl, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse



Yi Feng Xin
...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' rh......

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Categories: kanji, sad,
Form: Sonnet
Ground Zero
...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 woul......

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Categories: kanji, imagery, innocence, war, world
Form: Free verse
Data
...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 th......

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Categories: kanji, science, word play,
Form: I do not know?



Little Houses
...The ......

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Categories: kanji, art, beauty, language, love,
Form: Haiku
Sonnet To the Pupil of My School
...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 mon......

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Categories: kanji, goodbye,
Form: Sonnet
Sacred Place For Natural Dodoitsu Contest
...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......

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Categories: kanji, places,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Children of the Divine Wind
...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......

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Categories: kanji, history, inspirational, introspection, natural
Form: Free verse
Fragile Rice Papers
...fragile rice papers cling to a thrashed wicker wall and silent gazes kanji-stained blots become buds some bloom into ureshii ________________________________ 1. "Ureshii" means happiness (......

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Categories: kanji, hope
Form: Tanka
Ancient Strokes
...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 h......

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Categories: kanji, life
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Japanese, If You Please
...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-face......

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Categories: kanji, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snow Monkeys / Japan 2008
...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 fr......

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Categories: kanji, adventure
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Japanese If You Please / 2008
...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......

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Categories: kanji, adventure
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Garden Dreams
...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 wrappe......

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Categories: kanji, seasons
Form: Free verse

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