Shoji Poems - Poems about Shoji

Silently

...With your death this old house mourns as decay smiles Once a life of glamour held her room of pink brocade Now ivy grows through broken hearts of girlhood wiles To smother closet doors as weeping ......

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Categories: shoji, death, loss,
Form: Rhyme

A Silhouette

...Plush red velvet pillows rest secluded light bent amid scenic shoji screens ornate vines twist and turn giving way a silhouette stares ahead without face Pin pricked blood blackened by pain ......

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Categories: shoji, analogy, dark, feelings,
Form: Free verse

A Tanto's Key

...His blade cuts through the branches the dark silence of the moment bleeds through his kimono as heavy breath stalks into zen across the treetops spooks the owl a tender footstep ~ a glimmer o......

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Categories: shoji, death, devotion, lost love,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry