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Tokyo Poems - Poems about Tokyo

Premium Memberrainbow bridge

rainbow bridge arching
tokyo connection
doubledecker link



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

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Categories: tokyo, color, rainbow,
Form: Haiku

Give Up Tokyo

Is today Japan's version of April Fools Day?

They've made the Olympics look like a School Sports Day
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Categories: tokyo, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme



Rainy Days In Tokyo

i ain’t never been to tokyo

its sunny here it’s probably sunny there too,

i guess

there was a bitter sweet breeze this morning

but it didn’t pause me

on my walk to the train, thoughts of my next step

head phones on, world off

my backpack is filled with things i wouldn’t use on a mountain climb

pay my fare pay my
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Categories: tokyo, culture, imagination, lonely, rain,
Form: Free verse

Art In Tokyo

Rushing through Tokyo in five days
Thailand is celebrating my birthday 
water fights and fanfare cause dad delay
and I can wander wherever there

7-11 our saviour of midnight snacks
sushi in tokyo is never cheap, we eat
tomorrow is for walks with light packs
13 now in the park celebrating cherry street

the shirt I am wearing is busy
by an artist
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Categories: tokyo, birthday,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEnter Locking Up Viral Rings

An international battlefield was scheduled this year 
Postponed due to an invisible fear 
A misunderstood sensitive diplomatic situation 
Displaying theatrical health care patients 
Put off an artistic war 
Where the death toll is replaced by a game score 
As we interpret what really happened 
Hopefully continuing peaceful dialogue with Japan 
Remember when things were just
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Categories: tokyo, health, international, leadership, princess,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberTokyo Disneyland Adventure

Long ago, a long layover in Tokyo persuaded 
my flying partner and I to venture out to
visit Disneylando, as the locals called it.
We started out early in the fog about 8 a.m.
We had our map that was printed in mostly 
Japanese, and we asked a worker at the train 
station the train stop where we
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Categories: tokyo, adventure, humor,
Form: Narrative

Monumental Win At Tokyo

S-uccessful
I-ndividual
R-apturously
E-njoys
E-xceptional
T-riumph
H-aving
O-utdone
R-ivals'
N-otable

L-oveliness
E-ven
E-liminating
A-ll
R-ight
A-fter
M-onumental
W-in
A-t
T-okyo

Topic: 59th Miss International (November 12,2019) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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Categories: tokyo, beauty,
Form: Acrostic

Japan

The island of the rising sun
The land were work is fun
With tireless proletarians
And boundless trailblazers 
Land where days and hours clock first
Where it is already tomorrow when our sun sets
At the edge of the world 
With a new age for the world 
They break paths for us to maintain
The earth cracks but they build again
Lights
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Categories: tokyo, adventure, age, business, city,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn the Tokyo Subway

Tokyo No Chikatetsu

“Godzilla!” the subway sways
bouncing sideways.    quiet.
bonsai ears cultivated,
thoroughfare of sentient earplugs.

jolted, jubilant hilarity

“SHH!” teeth hush too loud
drunken, diabolical boredom

“Godzilla!” with more intensity.
brilliant windows, Japanese
contortionists amuse bad
very bad               Americans


6/28/2019

Title - Tokyo Subway
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Categories: tokyo, humor, travel,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberA Yo-Yo In Tokyo

It's easy to lose your bearings in the Bering Sea
Or your yo-yo in Tokyo get what I mean
How about this
Being squished by a fish
The fish needs to apologize, that's totally obscene
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Categories: tokyo, giggle,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberMt Fuji Mountain Bride

You Exude Reverence and Silence
In your wedding gown you adorn the sky
Crisp and white, lacy along your edges, 
Wowing the masses year after year, 
As you wait for your groom.

Something borrowed, something blue, something old,
Blue snow, borrowing your page from your own book.
As you are unique, and people never tire of your freshness.
Old wise ones
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Categories: tokyo, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberTokyo Shoppes

holiday spirit hopping
my man tears through Tokyo shoppes
seeking

12/16/2018
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Categories: tokyo, travel,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberTokyo 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
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Categories: tokyo, city,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberTokyo Blues

Welcome to Japan where an Uber costs
two hundred dollars and a can of Spam.
Tokyo — all my pockets it exhausts.
My plane’s just arrived and I’m in a jam.

I turn the spindle and it cuts me — ouch!
I miss the lights and the tree and my wife.
A limo would have taken half my pouch.
I miss her
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Categories: tokyo, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Yo-Yo In Tokyo

It's easy to lose your bearings in the Bering Sea
Or your yo-yo in Tokyo get what I mean
How about this
Being squished by a fish
The fish needs to apologize, that's totally obscene


Silly?
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Categories: tokyo, humor,
Form: Limerick

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