Categories:
nippon, poetry,
Form: Alliteration
Diversity Pack
...Call it what you will
But I know exactly where I have been
You have stripped away my zeal and well me up with Nippon steel
The knife is at his throat and travelers are loading in a big boat
Where...
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Categories:
nippon, america, betrayal, black african
Form: Narrative
Midway I
...When all the stars from Heaven fell to Earth,
a light was quelled beneath the mantled dawn.
The aftermath lent anger in rebirth
when apathy was scorched by Nippon brawn.
A swift emergence reckone...
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Categories:
nippon, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Midway III
...Then through the mist, the Sun was set ablaze
and all beneath its realm fell to their knees.
‘Twas but a fire that filled the coming days
as mortal ashes wafted through the breeze.
Her wreckage w...
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Categories:
nippon, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Midway II
...As frothing wakes unveil a racing tide
a frontal surge unleashed intended taunt,
‘twas but a strafe to lead the prey outside
then strike a blow amidst the faring jaunt.
To draw first blood, then...
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Categories:
nippon, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Pearl Harbor III
...Beneath the ash its morals face defeat
as segregation separates is corps.
The scars outline a union incomplete
and wounds define its failure to restore.
Though rally calls have filled a Nation’s ...
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Categories:
nippon, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate
...Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate...
after reading the article
(published in the July + August 2024
issue of Mother Jones)
titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's
pugilistic spokesman...
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Categories:
nippon, america, boxing day , celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Tunggul Irang Exceptor
...When blackened at that time,
as the fate of this country,
In the Dai Nippon colonial era,
the baby was born.
Childbirth is true fate.
breastfeeding as God's gift,
laudatory nature and remark...
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Categories:
nippon, character, for him, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Remember the Emperor
...Remember the emperor
In Japan, especially in Tokyo, people are a strange mix of efficiency.
Young people are adolescents until they are forty living in an aspic
of western pop culture that does...
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Categories:
nippon, absence, anti bullying, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Absurd Proverbs - Cordel
...Politics is smart on one side
but it's half luck for another
when you win it's hazard
when you lost it's sourish
I think so much Pirulin
I got the first mush
before giving to each other.
Who...
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Categories:
nippon, allegory, allusion, analogy, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Nippon Over
...A GI looking for nookie
Met a Geisha girl called Suki
Would you believe
She could conceive
Faster than a New York bookie?...
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Categories:
nippon, humor,
Form: Limerick
Hungry Zengo
...Hungry Zengo
Zengo is the star from Canada. He emigrated to Russia and drank Neo Soviet vodka dry. Then he went to Pakistan and India to eat kebab, samosa, japati, onion bargi, curry and chips with ...
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Categories:
nippon, fantasy, sick, silly, surreal,
Form: Blank verse
Father's Dislike
...Father's Dislike
American hero, a man my father would ing hate, was a real golden ball boy. Olympic athlete, he saw and did it all. Jessie Owens, Nazi Berlin, history being made.Making history.Joine...
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Categories:
nippon, conflict, history, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Pipe Dreams
...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 claw, and horn.
Linked-locks and keys have spined be...
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Categories:
nippon, analogy, symbolism, travel,
Form: Free verse
Secret Messages
...—– My life at seventy-three, amazing, yet there are times when its blue. In context, a haibun is of the now, not the future, or past. Oh, references can be made, in context, to ether, with qualifiers...
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Categories:
nippon, poetry,
Form: Haibun
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