Best Tokyo Poems

Long ago, a long layover in Tokyo persuaded 
my flying partner and I to venture out to
visit Disneylando, as the locals called it.
We started out early in the fog about 8 a.m.
We had our map that was printed in mostly 
Japanese, and we asked a...

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Banzai Tokyo
Land lashing tsunami tongue
Godzilla is home...

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No cow,no milk
no milk now,
I will go,
my mom will go
to bring our cow
from Tokyo....

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A belly tuna salad
salmon eggs on toast
a marinated heering
sea urchin sushi
fried octopus balls
barbeque
sauce !...

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Cherry blossoms cruise

     Serenely on tranquil pond

          Koi glide beneath

               Seeking shade 'neath lily pads

   ...

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It's easy to lose your bearings in the Bering Sea
Or your yo-yo in Tokyo get what I mean
How about this
Being squished by a fish
The fish needs to apologize, that's totally obscene


Silly?...

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It's easy to lose your bearings in the Bering Sea
Or your yo-yo in Tokyo get what I mean
How about this
Being squished by a fish
The fish needs to apologize, that's totally obscene...

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TOKYO METRO

the eerie silence
packed in with no elbow room —
assignment Japan
           the American’s  mischief
erupts in stifled laughter

12/12/2018...

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Atomic monster
Breathes flaming vapors
Smashes skyscrapers

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Diminutive,
held in outward sighs,
control, curtsy, chivalry
with oceanic eyes;
Deep dreamer,
forward thinker,
silencer, sprouting poise,
kindnesses core respect;
of place, art and age;
current behavior
from bygone days
Japan stays....

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Welcome to Japan where an Uber costs
two hundred dollars and a can of Spam.
Tokyo — all my pockets it exhausts.
My plane’s just arrived and I’m in a jam.

I turn the spindle and it cuts me — ouch!
I miss the lights and the tree and my...

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Tokyo No Chikatetsu

“Godzilla!” the subway sways
bouncing sideways.    quiet.
bonsai ears cultivated,
thoroughfare of sentient earplugs.

jolted, jubilant hilarity

“SHH!” teeth hush too loud
drunken, diabolical boredom

“Godzilla!” with more intensity.
brilliant windows, Japanese
contortionists amuse bad
very bad             ...

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i ain’t never been to tokyo

its sunny here it’s probably sunny there too,

i guess

there was a bitter sweet breeze this morning

but it didn’t pause me

on my walk to the train, thoughts of my next step

head phones on, world off

my backpack is filled with things i...

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You Exude Reverence and Silence
In your wedding gown you adorn the sky
Crisp and white, lacy along your edges, 
Wowing the masses year after year, 
As you wait for your groom.

Something borrowed, something blue, something old,
Blue snow, borrowing your page from your own book.
As you are...

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The island of the rising sun
The land were work is fun
With tireless proletarians
And boundless trailblazers 
Land where days and hours clock first
Where it is already tomorrow when our sun sets
At the edge of the world 
With a new age for the world 
They break paths...

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