Short Japan Poems

Short Japan Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Japan by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Japan by length and keyword.


Marmite Vs Vegemite War Is Toast

The Marmite Man from Birmingham
Is also called Tom Cunningham
His Vegemite ban
Produced from Japan
Chocolate and banana jam
Form: Limerick


Hiroshima

Japan now our friend  
Unlike 1945 
Prayers keep Hope alive 

            ***
Contest: Tribute to Japan
Sponsor: Debbie Guzzi
© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Lost In Japan

Origami soul
Pressed in rice paper tightly
A tomb of beauty
Memory of Geisha's heart
Tsunami tears in albums...

www.scripca.com
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Geisha

In blooms of haru
behold the lotus-eaters...
mystical flower!



Note: haru is the season
         of spring in Japan.
Form: Senryu

Cryptomeria

Ancient tree, girth 7.04 m & height 35 m, over 1000 years old!

one thousand years old
very old  tree in Japan
Cryptomeria
Form: Haibun


Premium Member Somewhere in a Kyoto hanamachi

pretty geisha in early morning
needs motivation
to open her lovely eyes
and get on with her day



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Id

The monster
hides deep within
until it is
unleashed
wreaking havoc 
upon me
like Godzilla 
upon the 
unsuspecting streets
of Japan.
Form:

There Once Was a Woman From Japan

There once was a woman from Japan
She went by the name of Faye-Lynn
A ninja with beauty
To kill was her duty
Her weapon was seduction of man
Form: Limerick

Suzanna

There was a young girl from Japan 
Whose name was Suzanna Tienshan 
She didn’t wanna work 
Her whole life as a clerk 
So she married a dirty old man.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member 'moo'R Fun

In India, it's 'Holy Cow!'
     In Mexico, it's 'Ole, Cow!'
   In Japan, it's 'Hory Crow' 

     In the USA ~ Careful! ~
   Felony for the wrong pronoun

Premium Member Old Maid Is Over My Head

Shogi
me?
I can barely play Go Fish

Old Maid is well over my head
Shogi?
I think not

Shogi: Japanese chess
where you get to use your
opponent’s captured army

MEGALOMANIA AMERICAN DREAM





          sans geography
      The USA is this world
        others, planets...

     Japan is Russia
        Brazil is in China
          China is out there...!

What Two Can Do

There once was a man from Japan,
    Who lived in an old caravan.
    When he took in a stray,
    And another next day.
    He soon had one other Toucan.

    9/ 9/ 2018.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Tokyo Metro

TOKYO METRO

the eerie silence packed in with no elbow room — assignment Japan
the American’s mischief erupts in stifled laughter 12/12/2018
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Cherry Blossom Time

It's cherry blossom time in Japan Most glorious spectacle since spring began Pink and white magic A symbol romantic One of nature's most beautiful gifts to man
Form: Limerick

Premium Member First Japanese Imports

Remember those first imports from Japan?
It seems they were all built for a small man.
Well, the times have changed.
Things are rearranged.
Japan’s building them as big as they can.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Late Aunt Petula

A man who missed his late Aunt Petula
sought a clairvoyant up in Missoula
When she sensed his Aunt Anne
he hopped a plane to Japan
for he owed her a whole lot of moolah

2/9/22
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Wolf

There was a young wolf from Japan.
Who got hit by a pan.
Who wanted to jump.
She got caught by a tree and fell down with a bump.
I think she needs to wear a protective hat.
Form: Limerick

Tsunami

Tsunami attacked
Japanese were in great pain
They have recovered




Traditional Haiku (5/7/5)
Disaster in Japan

By: Leila Mijares

For:
Sidney ~ LeeAnn's Haiku From The Heart Contest
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Clerihew Hasegawa

19th century Veika Hasrgawa
made woodblock rints pf the meijimg era
painting ogiku style 'mums'* with a single head
a flower in Japan so sacred

*https://panteek.com/Hasegawa/index.htm
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Clerihew Foujita

Artist Tsuguhara Fojita * from Japan
was a very public kind of man
'Fou-Fou' to his friends,wa quite a card
labelling himself  'LLeonade' 

*https://www.wikiart.org/en/tsuguharu-foujita
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member West Coast Trail First Night

Quiet, but for the steady
murmur of waves along
an obsidian beach.
Remnants of an ocean storm,
somewhere between
here and Japan.
Sometime between
Passé Imparfait et
Plus-que-parfait.

Geisha Girl Dance

only
the
porcelain white face
of
the
geisha  girl
snap open
and
close
her 
Nakamichi
red fan
to
entertain
the
emperora
of
japan
through
the
choreography
of
the
gisha girl dance

Premium Member Gender Confusion Fun

There once was an old man from Japan
Who scoffed at gender pronoun confusion
  He said, Listen you young 'uns
  If you really want to have fun
    Pronounce my name fast --
          I-you-he-she
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Kamikaze Pilots

One of the mysteries in the history of man Kamikaze pilots wearing helmets, I don't understand To live and to die For the Emperor, they cry Unimaginable to us but for the glory of Japan
cry
Form: Limerick

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