Poems
Selected poems connected with this theme.
Campos de Castilla (Fields of Castile)
Machado Antonio · 1912
Everything passes, yet everything remains;
but our part is to pass,
to make our way,
to make paths upon the sea.
I have never sought
the glory
of leaving my song
in the memory of men.
I love subtle worlds,
wei …
24 Haiku
Basho Matsuo · 1690
English renderings created for Hall of People with the assistance of ChatGPT.
1.
Facing Mount Yudono, I wept—
there was no other way
to thank the sacred mountain.
2.
The blazing current
carries the sun to …
Selected haikus
Issa Kobayashi
In this world
we walk on the roof of hell,
gazing at flowers.
A bath when you're born,
a bath when you die,
how stupid.
Don't know about the people,
but all the scarecrows
are crooked.
Blossoms at night,
…
Waking From Drunkenness on a Spring Day
Bai Li
Life in the world is but a big dream;
I will not spoil it by any labour or care.
So saying, I was drunk all the day,
Lying helpless at the porch in front of my door.
When I awoke, I blinked at the garden-lawn;
…
Fields Of Soria
Machado Antonio · 1912
Hills of silver plate,
grey heights, dark red rocks
through which the Duero bends
its crossbow arc
round Soria, shadowed oaks,
stone dry-lands, naked mountains,
white roads and river poplars,
twilights of Soria, w …
Ode to the West Wind
Shelley Percy · 1819
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken …
Afternoon On A Hill
Milley Edna · 1917
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lig …