Articles about 'Japanese Poems'
August 22nd, 2011
You can hear poet Robert Hass reading his translations of some Haiku poems by Japanese poet and Buddhist priest Kobayashi Issa (1763 – 1827) in the video below.
The first is one of my favorites:
Don’t worry spiders I keep house Casually.
Listen to more here…
Enjoy!
Mama Lisa
May 21st, 2011
A Child’s Garden of Poetry is a show running on HBO for a couple of more days. So if you have HBO – go see it while it’s still on! It’s a half hour program geared towards kids… but adults will enjoy it too. In the show, kids talk about poetry and read a few...
September 22nd, 2010
Dragonflies are a sign of the seasons in Japan. The red dragonfly is specifically a sign of Autumn. There are Japanese poems in the haiku style about this theme.
Haiku is an unrhymed Japanese verse form in three lines only. The 3 lines have five, seven, and five syllables respectively.
Below are some haiku...
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August 24th, 2009
A Landscape
Land, green-brown;
Sea, brown-grey;
Island, dull peacock blue;
Sky, stone-grey.
I like the imagery of this poem. What’s interesting is that the sea is brown-grey and the island is blue.
“A Landscape” was originally Japanese. If anyone can send in the original, I’d love to add it here. Please email me at lisa@mamalisa.com .
Thanks!
Mama...
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