Moeru

Nicholas Browning

The lacquer, bleeds out

In the heat.

A starving victim,

Second sun,

With a horrid height to reach.

Charring stature, rise

To flame,

Inspire ash,

Incinerate.

Give all you have

For nothing in turn;

Do it once and then you'll feel

What it's like

To burn.

  • Author: Nicholas Browning (Offline Offline)
  • Published: May 6th, 2022 04:29
  • Comment from author about the poem: "Moeru" is how you say "burn", "to burn" or "get fired up" in Japanese. It's the westernized spelling of it, not using the actual characters. 燃える is the proper form.
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  • orchidee

    You all in a heap? A heap of ashes?! lol.

  • Caring dove

    My sister lived in Japan for over two years .. I’ve never been there myself , wouldn’t want to . Sounds like a difficult language to even try and learn lol

    • Nicholas Browning

      I'm going someday. You bet your bottom dollar that I'm going in style. A suit, a tie, black shoes, the whole nine.
      But yeah, in truth it is a very difficult language. I can speak it a bit but I can't read it xD

      • Caring dove

        Yeah , I think it takes twelve hours to get to Japan from the Uk anyway . I’ve only ever learnt French and German but can’t remember much of it , at all .

        • Nicholas Browning

          No offense to anyone but French has always been a very slurpy sounding language to me. Maybe from eating all those snails O. O

          German is cool though! Guten tag!

          • Caring dove

            Yes I liked German )) easy nice language

            Ich heise .. i think that’s my name is ‘

            I remember some of the numbers
            Not much else tho .

          • L. B. Mek

            'Moete' even..
            yeah the depth of kanji
            of a culture, some
            three thousand years
            of unbroken, heritage..
            utilised
            to enrich your poetry, wonderfully..
            thanks for sharing, dear poet

            • Nicholas Browning

              Many words for many different things
              Ever so slightly
              Obscured,
              And altered.

              Arigatou.

            • Rozina

              Another new word I have learnt. Thank you. Yes Japanese is quite difficult but my Japanese friends here are always happy to teach us new words.

              • Nicholas Browning

                Japanese friends are the best, though I have none. Thank you very much, Rozina.



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