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by Beppe Wolgers

Hhh

by Elizabeth Jennings

 Answers

by Muhammad Ali

Me — wheee!

by Derek Walcott

 The Sea Is History

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 HAND in hand! and lip to lip!

by A R Ammons

 One failure on
Top of another

by Jack Kerouac

 The taste
 of rain
—Why kneel?

by Matsuo Basho

 A bee
staggers out
 of the peony.

by Louise Bogan

 At midnight tears
Run in your ears.

by Yosa Buson

 Old well,
a fish leaps--
 dark sound.

by Kobayashi Issa

 In spring rain
a pretty girl
 yawning.

by Jack Kerouac

 Birds singing
 in the dark
—Rainy dawn.

by Yosa Buson

 Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
 open.

by Mother Goose

A sunshiny showerWon't last half an hour.

by Kobayashi Issa

 Not very anxious
to bloom,
my plum tree.

by Kobayashi Issa

 Napped half the day;
no one 
punished me!

by Muhammad Ali

I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

by Barry Tebb

 Too much gone wrong – 

No Muse, no song.

by Kobayashi Issa

 I'm going out,
flies, so relax,
make love.

by Yosa Buson

 Evening wind:
water laps
 the heron's legs.

by Yosa Buson

 Blow of an ax,
pine scent,
the winter woods.

by Matsuo Basho

 Fleas, lice,
a horse peeing
 near my pillow.

by Emily Dickinson

 The competitions of the sky
Corrodeless ply.

by Kobayashi Issa

 Don't worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually.

by Kobayashi Issa

 The moon tonight--
I even miss
her grumbling.