Long Shinto Poems

Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken and rustle.
Bristlecone pines ever sway slowly,
while pockets of air blush...

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The Kou the All Mighty King the Higher Power the LORD besides this to 362 pages. My story my spiritual story. I am the embodiment of man but spiritually a woman both man and woman...

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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 of a well-known Noh play.)

(The Chokugan  =  a...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXVIII

IF you pull a long perplexed face
You could be watching SUMO in Tokyo Bay
Or reading this without a NIHONG-GUO dictionary in front of face
Rather I'd say you...

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Oh how this bodice is dressed in taffeta,
Lined with hundreds of lavender pleats
Spiraling, drooping, whirling
All over my voluptuous contour …
Bare these limbs grinding on soft moss
To tap among rustled displays
From many a lovers’ heat to...

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Not coldly proud, in Saint Paul's cathedral,
     Nor silently strong in the Great Mosque of Mecca
     Nor sorrow-filled at the Wailing Wall
     Nor...

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Alabama’s Governor:  My Way or No Way

By Elton Camp

In office only for the second day,
Governor says do religion his way
The deacon in the Baptist Church
Wants us not to be left in the lurch

He says,...

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What hides beneath the busting red-tide waves, what wains?

Have you seen the Fat-white, would-be Samurai that lives 'round these parts?

To him you see, the
warrior code is the word of the fiery gods, and he
follows it...

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The task commissioned,
the black sand tested,
deemed worthy
of hard use.

A sword-smith's prayer
lifts aloft to the Shinto shrine
requesting his soul be captured
in the mirrored grain
of this, his finest blade.

An earthen furnace raging,
flames licking the entrance.
To smelt, to...

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Depression
seen as a plague
no one understanding
besides the ones who are the ones through it
the suffering
of knowing the truth
the other side
the temporary time
until the time comes
you become one with it
not of anguish
but truth
that will be the...

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It was during WWII
Japan ruled 
Koreans obeyed

Japan ordered
All Koreans
Walk up to Shinto Temple
And bow down to the picture
Of their emperor

Are you kidding?
My father scoffed
My God is god of Jesus Christ
Him will I only serve

My father...

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I searched many years, high and low
Looking every place I could go
Yet nowhere could I find 
the sublime.
The keys eluded me
How could I ever be free
should I falter and err erroneously. 
I looked into the...

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THE SKY OF JAPAN

	
When I was walking for the first time 
down through the streets of Japan
When I just saw 
Mt.fuji smiling at me 
The wind that just blew 
softly through me.
I can smell the...

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In this world
Power rules
What would have happened
If Germany won WWII in Europe?
If Japan won WWII in Pacific?

Jewes would have disappeared 
On this planet
Japan would have 
Beheaded millions of
Asians
Their headless bodies scattered all over
Thier heads piled...

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blackest night aglow
icy harbinger of doom
near now, make seas rise
send shivers through ancient tombs
blue earth beware night sky 

temple bells ring out
monks in orange robes chant ohm
flocks of sparrows flee
lava hisses through fissures
blue earth beware...

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Dishonorable Tao pen,
your fealty strokes 
are guided by 
shogun lust for the yen

Quill treachery 
blot your avarice ambition
Devious calligraphy
be the torn loyalty decision

Vain kimono pride
is bushido vow laid aside
Naked truth disrobed — 
Coin motive 
ain’t...

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in spring

she whispers

a sip of shinto




sun wen lotus

sways below cobalt sky 

a thought of sobo 




pink cherry blossom's

swirl the porcelain plate

hands folded in prayer







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Sobo- Grandmother 

Shinto- All Nature / Worship / Ancestors / Spirit /...

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