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Premium Member Dancing Geisha
Dazzling carmine leaves
dance like fair Geisha on a
Japanese Maple.
Shapely arms, curving branches,
bend in cadence with the wind.



~~   July 1st, 2017   ~~

*Carmine...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: geisha, beauty, nature, tree,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Geisha Grin
Green geisha grins
Charming the gentlemen
Eyes like chocolate pools
Drown in their sweetness
Their sweetness uniqueness
Able to sweep away grief
Smiling and styling
Dance romanced by
Graceful hands following 
The glance...

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Categories: geisha, allusion, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Geisha Whispers.
Moonlight crying on white linen, fingering
lace curtains, glancing apprehensively
at distorted reflections peeping
through Waterford crystal
framed in silver,
a silence
almost apologetic
creeping through the room,
trying hard not to disturb
the...

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Categories: geisha, mystery, peace, time,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Geisha Today a Convict Tomorrow
A geisha today a convict tomorrow
My mouths are all speaking
Blah Glad and Hah Sad
I cannot hear them for I am done
Broken and cracked, an egg...

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Categories: geisha, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Geisha
pitty-pit-pat, pitty-pit-pat ...

dark attic, echoing ... tenderly
rain on tin roof above,
her nana's voice, ages hence -
lives ago, really ... calling …

    ...

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Categories: geisha, imagery, longing, memory, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Moon, You
you ...
are my moon
(whisper me, coolly)
wan and pale as porcelain
milky moll - `china doll ...
dancing the sky like a Ginza geisha
stars tickling your toes
prettily petulant,...

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Categories: geisha, analogy, love, metaphor, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Muse Is a Flower Garden
Autumn will forever be the season of death to me,
but like time, I do not remain cemented in the past.
Memories of ghosts will always lead me...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: geisha, analogy, assonance, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My End Is Now
When I was growing up,
Daily they packed my outgrown:
Shoes, shirts,suits and trousers;
And paid me commendation
As they milled around me
Like night ants around light!

When I was...

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Categories: geisha, angst, betrayal, emotions, growth,
Form: Verse
Buried Secrets
where the seagull dies
stringless origami cries
loneliness of soul

koi fish suffocate
colors fade in Bonsai trees
island in distress

words not understood
shadows grin tricks on rice walls
tsunamis in eyes

geisha...

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Categories: geisha, life, nostalgia, sad, social
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Lady of the Night
Getting lost in the wake of a beauty so exotic 
Warm balmy night promises speak from her beckoning eyes
Ensnaring themselves in a web of sultry...

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Categories: geisha, lost love, lust, sensual,
Form: Verse
Premium Member As I Journey East
Come along with me as I journey East
where fragile cherry blossoms flutter
before raining down from cloudless skies.
Let's climb majestic mountains whose crests 
are always laced...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: geisha, beauty, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Comes Secretly
Beaded tresses and silk kimono rustle with finesse,
Her geisha heels tapping restlessly on moist Yakasa weeds
From  an enchi...there he comes secretly, through groans of...

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Categories: geisha, mystery, relationship,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Butterfly
Her name was Madame Butterfly;
   true love embraced her one fine day.
By sea, he came, neath bright, blue sky,
   on Navy...

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Categories: geisha, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts: Pt2
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”



The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip...

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Categories: geisha, bible, bird, evil, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - When Stature Is a Form of Grace - 6
WHEN STATURE IS A FORM OF GRACE

Red hair,
skin sweet apple, 
Her face  like a geisha
quiet yet armed with falcon eyes
You'll see.

His nose:
sharp  like...

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Categories: geisha, character, feelings, social, society,
Form: Cinquain

Book: Shattered Sighs