KENJI'S POETRY ANTHOLOGY 2

user_profile:user_profile.profile_pictureby Kenji
Films 83
Comments 2
Followers 53

BASHO: HAIKU
summer grasses
traces of dreams
of ancient warriors
(translation)

~

EMILY DICKINSON: Because I could not stop for death
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed us –...


Read more
Follow us on
  • About
  • Ways to Watch
QR code

Scan to get the app