Best Kyoto Poems

Decaying wooden temples,
Frozen in place by garden paths
That tie them to the earth,
A virtual spider’s web from the air.
Foliage jealous of the sun
Reflecting back its...

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Limerick: Once a gorgeous Geisha in Kyoto

Once a gorgeous Geisha in Kyoto
Took (a) Cowboy to see crisp kimono
Ai ! took time to unfold
Lo ! Behold...

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(The Kyoto Protocol, an international
treaty signed in December 1997, commits
member states to reduce their carbon
dioxide emissions.  The United States is
the only First World nation...

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Pipe Dreams

Though I have a woman’s heart; it pounds with
dragon’s fire. Curled about the core of self, 
I have lain in wait for Asia with...

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David Meade


It’s been over a month
And not a verse, or line 
No limerick or witty fair
No Haiku or Hitachi or Kyoto flair
Left with no choice
No...

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3.   At the Cabin

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version...

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("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)

1....

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4.   Murasame Starts to Relate the Story

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the...

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I was not thirty yet, and it was fall.
My wife and I were touring in Japan
While on our summer break from teaching school.
Our luck, our...

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City Skin

    A city can be so close, 
    enclosing, 
    familiar, 
   ...

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I meandered through the muddy Mekong
Searched in sultry sexy Saigon
Ravished in the Cat Thien Rain forest
Yet I still could not find you

I found myself haunted...

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Once upon a time there was a son and his mum
He wanted to marry and mother agreed in a glum
But asked her sunny to show...

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METRO BOULOT DODO  -  GOING HOME AFTER WORK



Bobo               going...

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Notes on this Poem
I am not a bleating liberal, nor do I wish to upset America. But when I am in England sunbathing in 75...

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Sixties Manson Beatles Connection

Helter
Skelter

Seventies Know it all

Lippy
Hippie

Eighties Favorite Pet

Yuppie
Puppy

Nineties Kyoto Protocol

Pollution 
Solution 

Two Thousand Twelve Election 

Barrack
Back



Footle Fun Contest

First attempt at this form....

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