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Famous Tokyo Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Tokyo poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous tokyo poems. These examples illustrate what a famous tokyo poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...ght he puts
into that young woman
would launch a national product
complete with TV spots & skywriting
outlets in Bonn & Tokyo
I mean it

Let it be known that nine words have not passed
between herself and Henry;
looks, smiles.
God help Henry, who deserves it all
every least part of that infernal & unconscious
woman, and the pain.

I feel as if, unique, she . . . Biddable?
Fates, conspire.
—Mr Bones, please.
—Vouchsafe me, Sleepless One,
a personal experience of the body o...Read more of this...
by Berryman, John



...face--the skill, the copper filament,
The golden bellful of notes twirling through
Their invisible element from
Rio to Tokyo and back again gathering
Speed in the variations as they tunnel
The twin haunted labyrinths of stirrup
And anvil echoing here in the hearkening
Instrument of my skull....Read more of this...
by Pinsky, Robert
...with wires and meshed with
 steel; from Pittsburg to Vladivostok is
 an iron ride on a moving house; from
 Jerusalem to Tokyo is a reckoned span;
 and they talk at night in the storm and
 salt, the wind and the war.

They have counted the miles to the Sun
 and Canopus; they have weighed a small
 blue star that comes in the southeast
 corner of the sky on a foretold errand.

We shall search the sea again.
We shall search the stars again.
There are no bars across the way.
There...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

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