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Shinto Poems - Poems about Shinto

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 ......

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Categories: shinto, age, angel, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: shinto, holocaust, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



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......

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Categories: shinto, power,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: shinto, allegory, imagery, perspective, words,
Form: Verse
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 ......

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Categories: shinto, brother, sad, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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......

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Categories: shinto, death, earth, fantasy, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: shinto, art, health, hip hop,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Ukemi
...I often rise before the Moon. I often fall before the Sun. I’ve more to say but expect I’m done.......

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Categories: shinto, philosophy, silence,
Form: Free verse
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 ......

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Categories: shinto, god, good night,
Form: Haiku
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......

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Categories: shinto, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: shinto, sky,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: shinto, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: shinto, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: shinto, beauty, imagery, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member 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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Categories: shinto, natural disasters, nature, night,
Form: Tanka

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