RADIO PROGRAM
About Bryant McGill
Event Photographs
Various Online Works!
Dictionary of Rhyme
Community Forums
Visitor Comments
Open Publishing Projects
BUYING BOOKS
Free Downloads
Vision Board
Call for Submissions
Contact Information
Autograph Requests
Universality of Suffering
The Golden Rule
Book of Truth
Collected Works
Gift Givers Manifesto
Become the Change
Free Audio Readings
Wife and Daughters
Memorial Dedications
McGill Family History
Rare & Exotic Collectibles
A Few Favorite Quotes
Current Reading List
World Poetry Archive
MySpace.com
Linkedin.com
DeviantArt.com
Social Vibe Charity
YouTUBE.com
Squa.re Lifestyles
Technorati.com
Poker Players Net
NextCat.com
Friendster.com
NowLive.com
Bebo.com
Yuwie.com
Blogspot.com
Hi5 Network
Tribe Hollywood


Listen - Visit Site - Stations

Become Powerful!

Links & Partners




World Poetry Translation Project


Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live

Don't know about the people

by Kobayashi Issa

Approaching my village:

Don't know about the people,
but all the scarecrows
are crooked.


American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish
 

  Translations for this Poem
 English  Spanish  French  German
 Italian  Portuguese  Korean  Russian
 Chinese  Japanese    
 

  Poems by Kobayashi Issa
  1. All the time I pray to Buddha
  2. Asked how old he was
  3. A bath when youre born
  4. A cuckoo sings
  5. A huge frog and I
  6. Blossoms at night
  7. Children imitating cormorants
  8. Dont know about the people
  9. Dont worry spiders
  10. Ducks bobbing on the water
  11. Even on the smallest islands
  12. Even with insects
  13. Face of the spring moon
  14. Having slept the cat gets up
  15. Hey sparrow
  16. How much
  17. Im going out
  18. In spring rain
  19. In these latter-day
  20. In the thickets shade
  21. In this world
  22. It once happened
  23. Last time I think
  24. Napped half the day
  25. Napping at midday
  26. New Years Day
  27. New Years morning
  28. Not knowing
  29. Not very anxious
  30. No doubt about it
  31. Pissing in the snow
  32. Seen
  33. Summer night
  34. That pretty girl
  35. That wren
  36. These sea slugs
  37. The crow
  38. The man pulling radishes
  39. The moon tonight
  40. The pheasant cries
  41. The snow is melting
  42. The toad It looks like
  43. This moth saw brightness
  44. Under my house
  45. Under the image of Buddha
  46. Visiting the graves
  47. What a strange thing
  48. Windy fall
  49. With my father
  50. Writing shit about new snow
 
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTVWY[ALL] 
  Karl Shapiro 
  Katha Pollitt 
  Katherine Philips 
  Keith Douglas 
  Kenneth Koch 
  Kenneth Patchen 
  Kimiko Hahn 
  Kingsley Amis 
  Kobayashi Issa 

Volunteers needed to translate poetry into different languages. Please help us correct the translation of these poems. We currently have 79,663 translations and are trying to create the largest and most accurate database of world poetry translations. We have started with machine translations which are very inaccurate. Please translate your favorite poem on this site. You will be given credit for your translation and a link to your site if desired. COPYRIGHT NOTICE: These poems have been gathered and submitted by many of people, and from many sources. Most have no copyright. However, some may may have copyrights. We have tried to collect poems that appear on many external sites where the author seems to want to disseminate. If you are an author and do not want your poetry translated into other languages then send a removal request and it will be promptly removed.
 



Where applicable, U.S. & Int'l Copyrights by Bryant McGill. All Rights Reserved. Notices and Fair Use. McGill Trademark Licensed from the House of Gill, Corp Sole.