These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch, along with a few wake/tanka and haiku-like poems.
Untitled Haiku
Dark-bosomed clouds
pregnant with heavy thunder ...
the water breaks
―Michael R. Burch
one pillow ...
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Ono no Komachi translations
These are my modern English translations of the ancient Japanese poems of Ono no Komachi…
Submit to you, is that what you advise?
The way the ripples do
whenever ill winds arise?
―Ono no Komachi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Watching wan moonlight flooding tree limbs,
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These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch, along with a few wake/tanka and haiku-like poems.
Untitled Haiku
Dark-bosomed clouds
pregnant with heavy thunder ...
the water breaks
―Michael R. Burch
one pillow ...
......
Ono no Komachi translations
These are my modern English translations of the ancient Japanese poems of Ono no Komachi…
Submit to you, is that what you advise?
The way the ripples do
whenever ill winds arise?
―Ono no Komachi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Watching wan moonlight flooding tree limbs,
......