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Robert Sherriff When You Wish Upon a Star

...Robert Sherriff 08/07/1954 - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer
Robert Sherriff 
In the vibrant tapestry of childhood, I was surrounded by a spectrum of ...

The Final Solution III

...All hope was vain and nothing could atone
for deeds beyond atrocity defined.
These demagogues turned nation hearts to stone
through apathy and rhetoric maligned.
Though hell’s regime forged mecha...

Power Rules

...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 milli...

Ink Ronin

...
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

Vai...

Sacrifice

...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 ...

Spirits In the Wood

...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 e...

If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxviii

...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 sa...

Ukemi

...I often rise
before the Moon.

I often fall 
before the Sun.

I’ve more to say
but expect I’m done....

Spiritual Story

...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 both man and woman ...

Depression

...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 be...

The Sky of Japan

...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 t...

The Wind In the Pines 3

...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...

The Keys To the Kingdom

...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 lo...

Wisteria

...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
...

Nagareboshi - Shooting Star

...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 sp...

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