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Best Indochina Poems


Your Room
Behind your earlobe there was a birthmark that had the shape of palestine 
But they taught you in there that it was called israel 
In the hearth of your chest lied a heart full of vitriol
Out of your choice they altered your pulse, degraded your...

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Categories: indochina, anxiety, books, child abuse,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Japan At War
Japan At War

Japan wages war
winds bring clouds lullabying
Mount Fuji to sleep.
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Note:   
   Japanese political revolution ended the Edo period (1603-1867), which ended Japanese isolation from the world. Japan entered...

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Categories: indochina, art, history, war, world
Form: Haiku
Enola Happy
I think that what happened was that we all wanted to be Oedipus and possess our mothers.
But because society frowns on such couplings, 
we actually sought to BECOME our mothers.

Since only a woman can make a life, 
and because our sex is opposite and we...

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Categories: indochina, historywoman,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



cry freedom
Cry Freedom

Not many Americans know the world is not looking westward they see the fall of the value
they see the poverty of the suffering people who die of curable illnesses because they can’t pay the cost and might sell their house to cover
of capitalistic health...

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Categories: indochina, abuse, anti bullying, break
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things