Haiku

Far Deeper than a Soul Starves.Richard Lloyd Cederberg.Haiku/Tanka Poem

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 Far deeper than a soul starves

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Being positioned

Between vitality and

The grays of shadows;

This freely expressed life of

Extraordinary colors

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Creates full rainbows

With words and desert echoes;

Revealing her path

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As an art scholar,

Medieval literature;

One LIVING sculpture

Lamenting loves complexness;

A dragonfly ASCENDING,

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Rediscovering

The innocence of dreaming,

Not fully knowing

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 Her life will evince

The fervent hopefulness’s

 Of one seeking TRUTH

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DRAGONFLY rises,

In humbleness of spirit,

(Voyaging beyond)

 Life’s many unrequited

 Gifts given from two scarred hands

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 Understanding now

 Dying as a conversion;

 Circling obstacles

 Akin to daily regrets;

 A cathartic chrysalis

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 Waiting to be bound

 To ONE who emancipates

 The LIFE she foresees;

 Translucent of an echo;

 Far deeper than a soul starves,

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 Chrystus beckons

As an artificial church decays

 

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Haiku: Konoso Para Tarasa Anemoiyereya. Richard Vallance.
		

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HAIKU KONOSO PARA TARASA ANEMOIYEREYA f


ENLARGE VIEW: Editor.


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Linear B, the very earliest Greek script, was used by the Mycenaeans and Minoans from ca. 1450 – 120 BCE for administrative, financial and accounting purposes only, at least so far as we know. No literature as such has survived on the some 6,800 Linear B tablets and fragments.  So Richard’s haiku is in effect the very first poem (or literature for that matter) written in Linear B in 3,500 years.


BIO:


Richard Vallanc Santorini Grreece May 2012


Richard Vallance, meta-linguist, ancient Greek & Mycenaean Linear B, home page: Linear B, Knossos & Mycenae, http://linearbknossosmycenae.wordpress.com/


PINTEREST Boards: Mycenaean Linear B: Progressive Grammar & Vocabulary, http://pinterest.com/vallance22/mycenaean-linear-b-progressive-grammar-and-vocabul/ and, Knossos & Mycenae, sister civilizations, http://pinterest.com/vallance22/knossos-mycenae-sister-civilizations/ Also poetry publisher, The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: Anthology of sonnets of the early third millennium = Le Phénix renaissant de ses cendres : Anthologie de sonnets au début du troisième millénaire. Friesen Press, Victoria, B.C., Canada. © August 2013. 35 illustrations in B&W. Author & Title Indexes. 257 pp. 315 sonnets & ghazals in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese & Persian. TBP October 2013 http://vallance22.hpage.com/


 


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Haiku & Poetry. Poem. Joseph Randell Sherman
		

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end of day

waves caressing shore

master artist painting sky

~ ocean sunset song




nightfall

birds retire wings

fall asleep with setting sun

~ shadows disappear


child of autumn

an imaginer

contemplating vivid dreams

~turning painted leaves


until the sunset

i am but a shadow

dancing briefly

across the meadow

until the sunset

takes my hand


 Copyright Joseph Randell Sherman 2013






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Translated Poems by Michael R Burch. (Basho,Sappho,Shugyo.)
		

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(i.)


Epitaph for a Palestinian Child

 ―for the children of Gaza


I lived as best I could, and then I died.

 Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

 

Michael R Burch

 

(ii.)


Eros shakes my soul:

a wind on desolate mountains

leveling oaks.

 

―Sappho, fragment 42, loose translation by Michael R. Burch


(iii.)


The butterfly 

perfuming its wings

fans the orchid

 

― Matsuo Basho, loose translation by Michael R. Burch


(iv.)


Oh, fallen camellias,

if I were you,

I’d leap into the torrent! 

 

― Takaha Shugyo, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

 

 

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Michael R. Burch’s poems, translations, essays, articles and letters have appeared more than 2,000 times in publications which include TIME, USA Today, Writer’s Digest and hundreds of literary journals and websites. His poetry has been translated into Arabic, Czech, Farsi, Gjuha Shqipe, Italian, Macedonian, Russian, Turkish and Vietnamese. He also edits www.thehypertexts.com.



*Translator’s note: I consult a wide range of sources before I do a translation, since I’m not an expert on other languages. For instance, before doing my translations of Basho and Sappho, I studied hundreds of translations and comments about their work by various experts.




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