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Nanjing Poems - Poems about Nanjing


Dad I Had Great Desires

...Dad, I had Great Desires
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Dad, I had great desires:
Traveling Nanjing and Sanmachi Suji.
Stonehenge , Historic Yorkshire and Lake District .
Morocco and I...
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Categories: nanjing, desire,
Form: Free verse

Nanjing

...A dead baby lays in the middle of the road
her mother decapitated, blood seeps into the river -
A piece of bamboo and a broken bayonet
one penetrates the rectum, the other, 
a man's head -

The...
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Categories: nanjing, anger, dark, death, deep,
Form: Free verse



Nanjing

...Nanjing

As willows weep along the walls
And fall mums start to bloom
The wind still echoes hallowed 
calls
From Nanking's souls of doom

With little food and daily raids
There was no safety...
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Categories: nanjing, holocaust, war,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things