rainbow 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
Enter 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
Tokyo 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
On 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
A 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
Mt 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
Tokyo Shoppes
holiday spirit hopping
my man tears through Tokyo shoppes
seeking
12/16/2018
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Categories:
tokyo, travel,
Form: Light Verse
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
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Categories:
tokyo, city,
Form: Tanka
Tokyo 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
A 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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