The Snow Is Melting Poem by Kobayashi Issa

The Snow Is Melting

Rating: ★3.7


The snow is melting
and the village is flooded
with children.


Translated by Robert Hass

Kobayashi Issa
Monday, January 13, 2003
Topic(s) of this poem: children,snow
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Dr Antony Theodore 17 November 2018

the melting snow and the children n the school...... simplicity thanku. tony

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* Sunprincess * 27 December 2015

.............a great write....the hyperbole is amazing ★

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Susan Williams 01 February 2015

There is such an Elegant Simplicity in this.

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