Katsushika Hokusai Poems - Poems about Katsushika Hokusai

...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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