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Best Jap Poems

Below are the all-time best Jap poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of jap poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member For All the Sweet Lovers
Flying Saucers, Flake, Bar Six
Country Style, Gobstoppers, Twix.

Toffee Crisp and Dairy Crunch
Grand Seville and Milky Lunch.

Arrow Bars and Sherbert Dabs
Caramac and Lucky Bags.

Bluebird Toffee slabs...

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Categories: jap, appreciation, candy, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme



New Guinea Kokoda Campaign
New Guinea Kokoda Campaign

In 1942 the Japs appeared, took all the islands north.
Our troops were mainly school boys and for New Guinea bound.
13,000 Japs landed,...

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Categories: jap, adventure, school, men, old,
Form: Ballade
Men of Honor In the Mist
Men of Honor in the mist  Kokoda 1942......

Men of Honor in the mist,... 
Sometimes by a bullet kissed,... 
Shoot the buggers they'd insist,...
Threeo plonked,...

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Categories: jap, adventuregreen,
Form: Rhyme
Driven Crazy
Driven Crazy in 41

You were there in forty one, 
When Australia it called,
King  an country it was fun,
 Adventure it enthralled.

On a hill in...

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Categories: jap, adventuredeath, death,
Form: Rhyme
Norm Duel N Johnno
.....Norm Duel and Johnno of the Second Twenty Fifth.....
Were in Syria in 1941.....
They were surrounded by the French Foreign legion with....
75mm cannon and machine gun...

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Categories: jap, adventure
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Looking Glass
Desolate thoughts 
and counting crows
Specs of light 
spread across
Across the bridge so far
The Darkened moonlit sky
Red white and blue
Neon lights
Sparkle for the few
Left hanging out
In...

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Categories: jap, dedication, friendship, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Under the Old Red Duster
The Flag of the British Merchant Navy 

The Battle of the Atlantic

We’ve heard of the famous Mighty Hood that was sunk by a Bismarck shell
We...

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© Roy May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jap, warmen, lost, lost, men,
Form: I do not know?
Hugh Jackman
If Hugh jackman,s time as wolverine is thrue . 

Then maybe I can fynd him , sumthing else 2 du !

He could play a part...

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© John Hall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jap, adventure, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Ballad
Damn the Torpedoes
Damn the torpedoes

Damn the torpedoes the Yanks did say,
When duds hit a Jap ship and fell away,
Firing pins weren’t working well,
One sub loosed 13 didn’t...

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Categories: jap, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Japanese 10 Shilling Note At Kokoda In 1942
Kokoda Ten Shilling note.........................

Johnno had been out a tracking Japanese , in Kokoda's , misty green...
It was 1942, smell of death, slaughter so obscene.......
Suddenly two...

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Categories: jap, wardeath, old, day, death,
Form: Ballad
The Kadaitchi Witch Doctor Knight
HARRY WEST 

The Kadaitchi (Witch Doctor) Knight

Harry stood alone and sniffed the breeze
a pongy hay smell,  Japanese
Harry sheltered there beneath a tree
a gum tree...

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Categories: jap, angst
Form: Rhyme
Yarra Was An Old Sloop In 1941
YARRA was an old Sloop

Yarra was an old ship in 1941...........about a 10 year old Sloop
She was a small Destroyer with three 4 inch guns...
So...

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Categories: jap, warold, old,
Form: Rhyme
Wedding
A group of ladies by the stand pipe
While the tassa men play their tune
This is the lawa morning
I getting marry this afternoon

A bunch of foreigners...

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Categories: jap, how i feel, i
Form: Light Verse
One Step Ahead
One Step Ahead 
One step ahead of Imperial Japanese forces, we were kicked out of the Dutch East Indies fleeing for our lives. We escaped...

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Categories: jap, angst, conflict, death, flying,
Form: Verse
Bullant Bitten Or Shot
KOKODA 1942   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5VG58ypVuE

BULLANT BITTEN OR SHOT?
Oh yes its very popular to walk the Kokoda Track,
And people by the dozen have done just bloody...

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Categories: jap, adventure,
Form: Ballad

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