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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JAPAN Matches Found: 132 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 6-AUG, by BRUCE SPANG Poem Source First Line: The sky ripped open Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War A JAPANESE DWARF TREE, by ISABEL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: So old, so tiny, it its bowl of blue Last Line: Of a million swords! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Japan; Trees; Japanese A JAPANESE EVENING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round us the pines are darkness Last Line: At the end of the entertainment. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Japanese A JAPANESE SERENADE, by W. RUMSEY KINNEY Poem Text First Line: Dim bluish mountains slowly flush Last Line: Yuki, come. Subject(s): Courtship; Japan; Yale University; Japanese A MONTH IN SUMMER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Several years ago, I wrote haiku in this way Last Line: "is that what is meant by dwelling in unreality? And here too I end my words." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Family Life; Japan; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Summer; Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Japanese; Loneliness; Feminism A TRIPLE BALLAD OF OLD JAPAN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In old japan, by creek and bay Last Line: Through streets of old japan. Variant Title(s): Old Japan Subject(s): Japan; Japanese A VIEW OF FUJIYAMA AFTER THE WAR, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind, and all the midges in the air Subject(s): Japan; Japanese A WALKAROUND, FOR NEKO; KAMAKURA 11/10/96, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old pone Last Line: & a garden all around Subject(s): Japan; Japanese AFTERNOON, by TAKAHASHI SHINKICHI Poem Source First Line: My hair's falling fast Last Line: I'm off to asia minor Subject(s): Japan APOCALYPSE, by KIHARA KOICHI Poem Source First Line: In 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima, among Last Line: They march the burnt-out fields Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War ARCH OF GOLD IN THE FOREST, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: When I left yeddo the great sun was flaming Last Line: Mingling with their ceaseless whisper Subject(s): Forests; Houses; Japan AT THE BANQUET TO THE JAPANESE EMBASSY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We welcome you, lords of the land of the sun! Last Line: You are welcome! -- the song of the cagebird is done. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 1, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish & styrofoam Last Line: Red flowers & round open eyes Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 1, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish & styrofoam Last Line: Red flowers & round open eyes Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 2. THE TALE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He walks among the others: animals & neighbors. In the land of Last Line: Prince of tides has written this for you. The land of islands Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 2. THE TALE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He walks among the others: animals & neighbors. In the land of Last Line: Out of dreams. The prince of tides has written this for you. The land of islands Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 3. FOR MAKOTO ODA, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great quake / 'shook the earth Last Line: The words rewoven to the present day Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 3. FOR MAKOTO ODA, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great quake %'shook the earth Last Line: The words rewoven to the present day Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: [HOJOKI - CHOMEI AT TOYAMA], by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Months passed & people spoke about the quake no longer Variant Title(s): [hojoki-chomei In Kyoto-1177.-kobe 1995/96] Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: [HOJOKI - CHOMEI AT TOYAMA], by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Months passed & people spoke about the quake no longer Last Line: Uncertain passage through a foreign world Variant Title(s): [hojoki-chomei In Kyoto-1177.-kobe 1995/96 Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan ATOMIC DAWN, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day I first climbed mt. St. Helens was august 13, 1945. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Atomic Bomb - Victoms; Hiroshima, Japan AUBADE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake Subject(s): Farewell; Japan; Parting; Japanese AUBADE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake Last Line: The heart of standing is we cannot fly Subject(s): Farewell; Japan BALLADE OF A TOYOKUNI COLOUR PRINT, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was I a samurai renowned Last Line: I loved you -- once -- in old japan. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Now goes around me three times Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Desire; Japan; Slenderness; Thought BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye who tread the narrow way Last Line: Is god in human image %no nearer than kamakura? Subject(s): Buddhism; God; Japan; Travel BY THE RAPIDS, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I abhor noisy places Last Line: But 'free and easy wandering' in my chuang tzu Subject(s): Japan; Old Age CHOMEI AT TOYAMA, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! Last Line: Clacked a few prayers Subject(s): Hermits; Japan; Kamo Chomei (1155-1216); Japanese CHOMEI AT TOYAMA, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! Last Line: My tongue %clacked a few prayers Subject(s): Hermits; Japan; Kamo Chomei (1155-1216) CONVERSATION WITH A JAPANESE STUDENT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That lovely climbing vine, so fresh Last Line: And tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Art & Artists; Japan; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Paintings & Painters; Women; Japanese; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb COURT LADY STANDING UNDER CHERRY TREE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is an iris Last Line: And of the iris stalk that is broken in the fountain. Subject(s): Iris (flower); Japan; Japanese EASTERN TEMPEST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That flying angel's torrent cry Last Line: Of wisdom infinitely calm. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Japanese ENGLISH - UGH!, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI Poem Source First Line: One morning, reading the paper, I was flabbergasted Last Line: Or, rather, wheat-wine to our fascist friends Subject(s): English Language; Fascism And Fascists; Human Rights; Japan - Foreign Population ENIGMA, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: The watery pink of dawn is in the sky Last Line: Yet yosamura says life is futile. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Japan - Foreign Population EVENING MUSIC, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a great bat's wing angled on the west Last Line: Uttered themselves even here when those still peaks hurled flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Japanese FAR EAST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old hamlets with your fragrant flowers Last Line: Now folded like the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Japanese FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: A SPRING NIGHT IN SHOKOKU-JI, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight years ago this may Subject(s): Japan; Zen Buddhism; Japanese FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: A SPRING NIGHT IN SHOKOKU-JI, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight years ago this may Last Line: Naked under a summer cotton dress Subject(s): Japan; Zen Buddhism FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: DECEMBER AT YASE, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You said, that october Subject(s): Japan; Love - Loss Of; Japanese FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: DECEMBER AT YASE, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You said, that october Last Line: Or have done what my %karma demands Subject(s): Japan; Love - Loss Of FROM INSTANT CHRONICLES: A LIFE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In a night-club in hiroshima Last Line: Until which time we make our unfresh starts %and share our instant chronicles. It's your turn now Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Night Clubs FROM JAPAN, by SU MAN-SHU Poem Source First Line: Spring rain on the pagoda roof Last Line: Across yet one more bridge Subject(s): Japan; Zen Buddhism FROM THE JAPANESE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O chaser of the dragon-flies at play Last Line: Have run! Subject(s): Dragons;japan;sons; Japanese GATHERED AT THE RIVER; FOR BEATRICE HAWLEY AND JOHN JAGEL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the trees were not indifferent Last Line: No pollen. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nagasaki, Japan; Nature; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb GATHERING BLACKBERRIES: AUG. 6, 1988, FORESTVILLE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I wish I could spend three days grieving Last Line: One blackberry for each thousand [a-bomb] deaths Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Grief; Hiroshima, Japan GOD'S MEASUREMENTS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: As incense smoke thins, a stupendous Last Line: To the one diabutsu...Oh, look! The whole halo %is shimmering, dancing before our eyes! Subject(s): Japan; Statues GREAT FOREIGN WRITER VISITS AGE-OLD TEMPLE, by ANTHONY THWAITE Poem Source First Line: I am most honoured Last Line: Arigato %(did I get that right?) Subject(s): Japan HAUNTED IN OLD JAPAN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music of the star-shine shimmering o'er the sea Last Line: Dawns the crimson lantern of the large, low moon. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese HEART OF A BONSAI: PORTRAIT OF A JAPANESE WOMAN, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: In the white light from %opaque glass windows, her hand Last Line: But helpless, they float in pute, empty air Subject(s): Bonsai; Japan; Women HERE AND THERE, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: In the streets called nihon bashi Last Line: Quietude of a soul seated on its integral difference Subject(s): Art And Artists; Japan HIROSHIMA, by SACHCHIDANANDA HIRANANDA VATSYAYASNA Poem Source First Line: On this day, the sun Last Line: Man's witness to himself Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan HOME FROM HIROSHIMA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By decree %of the president of the united states Last Line: The wild west wreck the world Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Peace; Vengeance IN PRAISE OF EMPRESS JITO, by KAKINOMOTO HITOMARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our great empress Last Line: On foaming torrents %rides her royal craft Alternate Author Name(s): Workman; Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaru Subject(s): Jito, Empress Of Japan (687-696) INLAND SEA, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the moonlit sea Last Line: Like apprehension's baffling destiny. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Sea; Japanese; Ocean IS ABOUT, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dylan is about the individual against the whole creation Subject(s): Nagasaki, Japan JAPAN, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a miniature country once Subject(s): Japan; Japanese JAPAN, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a miniature country once Last Line: And like such clever tricks, %it shall be buried in excelsior Subject(s): Japan JAPAN CAN TEACH, SELS., by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world would be the better for Subject(s): Japan JAPAN, -- OLD AND NEW, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The son of a japanese lord am I Last Line: That foreigners brought japan. Subject(s): Art & Artists; China; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Soul; Japanese JAPANESE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How courteous is the japanese Subject(s): Japan JAPANESE PRESENTATION, I & II, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: Izubuchi says pound's poems Last Line: Though his body remained on the earth %& wept in the rain Subject(s): Buddhism; Japan; Language; Poetry And Poets JAPANESE WOMAN, by LORNA TALLENT KIDWELL Poem Text First Line: Decorously she pushed his little hands aside Last Line: And brighter seemed her day. Subject(s): Japan; Nurses; Japanese KEEP DRIVING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Atsuko / steering her smooth burgundy car Last Line: Leave. Subject(s): Cities; Driving & Drivers; Japan; Streets; Urban Life; Japanese; Avenues KYOTO, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak. Brightest air Last Line: To die without assurance of a cult was the supreme calamity Subject(s): Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904); Kyoto, Japan LAND OF LITTLE STICKS, 1945, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the wife is scouring the frying pan Last Line: Against his forearm, leaning up against the barn. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb LEGEND, by ANNE MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: Embattled japanese in furious wrath Last Line: With blood so spilt a thousand years ago. Subject(s): Japan; Soldiers; Japanese LIVING BY I-5, AUGUST 6, 1995, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: No, not the 100,000 year-old ice dam Last Line: Each car has an aura of blue flame Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Fire; Graves; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Radiation And Radiation Sickness LOUD JAZZ HORNS, by CARTER WEBSTER Poem Source First Line: Blow, blow, blow! Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan LOVE IN JAPAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The semi is silent Last Line: Eater of dreams! Subject(s): Dreams; Japan; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Japanese MADONNA OF THE KIMONO, by ETHEL POCHOCKI Poem Source First Line: The holy card Last Line: This gentle foreigner, %this madonna of the kimono Subject(s): Japan; Kimonos; Religion NAGASAKI JOURNAL: AUGUST 9, 1945, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The light coughed; %cleared its throat of matter Last Line: For another fifty years Subject(s): Buddhism; Future Life; Life; Nagasaki, Japan NINETEEN-FORTY FIVE, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our father's skin Last Line: A rare comb Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nuclear War; World War Ii NOODLE-VENDOR'S FLUTE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In a real city, from a real house Last Line: It celebrates survival - %in real cities, real houses, real time Subject(s): Japan O-TSUYA FORSAKEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I followed. In the tea-house geisha danced the death Last Line: Shall he be mine in no reincarnation? Subject(s): Death; Japan; Love; Loyalty; Stars; Dead, The; Japanese ON A JAPANESE NO DANCE, by ALICE ROGERS HAGER Poem Text First Line: When the spent pipes moan, slow, slow Last Line: Brocaded beauty shall avail nothing! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Japan; Lotus; Japanese; Lotos ON THE BANKS OF THE SUMIDA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Windy evening of autumn Last Line: Is dulled beneath the grey unquiet sky. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese ON THE BORDERS OF HIROSHIMA I HEARD A RUMOR OF WAR: 1, by CRANSTON SEDRICK KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: The bomb Last Line: Spotlight pans their exodus and as the last person leaves, the stage blackens. %exit all Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War ON THE BORDERS OF HIROSHIMA I HEARD A RUMOR OF WAR: 2, by CRANSTON SEDRICK KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: Occidental %sailing out of the west Last Line: Others, there will be beauty in the name hirshima Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War ORNAMENTATIONS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curving cranes with serpent necks Last Line: Thought spies one rose or daffodil. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Japanese PAINTINGS FROM JAPAN, by BURTON RAFFEL Poem Source First Line: The dew lies fresh on tenderness, in paintings Last Line: All around them know their place and never try Subject(s): Japan; Paintings And Painters PAPER CRANES - BLACK, by JAMES KEEGAN Poem Source First Line: Kids dying of cancer in japan kill Last Line: This black trickster, longevity's symbol Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cranes (birds); Japan PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO FIRST: 2. FIRST GLIMPSES OF JAPAN, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward her course our vessel steams Last Line: And view that mount for beauty famed. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO FIRST: 5. MOUNT FUJI, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Canst sing, o muse, that snowy height Last Line: He knows not beauty, peerless one! Subject(s): Japan; Japanese PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO SECOND: 1. THE INLAND SEA AND NAGASAKI, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, over azure waves, I thread Last Line: At that first meeting, or this last! Subject(s): Nagasaki, Japan PICTURE OF A CASTLE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am tired of being japanese Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Japan; Japanese PICTURES FROM TOFUKUJI; FOR PHILIP WHALEN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buddha is dying Last Line: Where resides the man who sent me them Subject(s): Buddhism; Japan; Sects; Buddha; Buddhists; Japanese PINE-TREE, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: In nature, only the tree is upright as man Last Line: Pine was silhouetted against the dove-colored mountain Subject(s): Japan; Pine Trees; Trees POST-MODERNISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped Last Line: Do I know him? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors RAIN AND SNOW (KYOTO, JAPAN), by BRAD LEITHAUSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When, with a shiver, after Last Line: City glimmer in passing-- %the river, waiting to be %visiblyundazzled by %even beauty so unlikely Subject(s): Kyoto, Japan REPLYING TO A POEM BY EMPRESS JITO, by SHII Poem Source First Line: No, no! I say Last Line: So I fetch out one more - %and you say 'far-fetched!' Subject(s): Jito, Empress Of Japan (687-696) RESIDENTIAL RHYMES, SELS., by OSMAN EDWARDS Subject(s): Japan; Travel SCENE FROM A DRAMA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daimyo and the courtesan Last Line: Nervously fingering his sword. Subject(s): Japan; Theater & Theaters; Japanese; Stage Life SCRAP IRON FOR THE YEN MARU, by BLANCHE DEGOOD LOFTON Poem Text First Line: Scrap-iron! Tons of twisted scrap-iron Last Line: Scrap-iron ... For the yen maru. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese SEPPUKU, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming out of it, a curious Subject(s): Japan; Motion Pictures; Japanese; Movies; Cinema SONG AGAINST NIPPON: TO HIRAM JOHNSON, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, dauntless leader stout of heart Last Line: We are the paladins of god! Subject(s): Japan; Johnson, Hiram Warren (1866-1945); Japanese SONG: SO OFTEN, SO LONG I HAVE THOUGHT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So often, so long I have thought of death Last Line: The october raindrops thickened and turned to snow Subject(s): Autumn; Japan; Seasons; Fall; Japanese SONNET FROM JAPAN: 1. THE SPELL, by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER Poem Text First Line: It's like a scene set for a fairy tale Last Line: And kingly spirits stir on every side. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese SONNET FROM JAPAN: 2. THE SHRINE OF THE PILGRIM SANDALS, by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER Poem Text First Line: In the green gloom of cryptomaria trees Last Line: Hurry away on silent feet of fear? Subject(s): Japan; Shrines; Japanese SPRING IN THE PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day of april ardors, a careless passerby Last Line: Blossomed and blessed the hour, redeemed the town. Subject(s): April; Beauty; Happiness; Japan; Parks; Peace; Spring; Joy; Delight; Japanese SUMO WRESTLERS, by JAMES KIRKUP Poem Source First Line: If looks could kill Last Line: Ten tons of rice-balls tumbling %into a pleased ringside geisha's lap Subject(s): Japan; Travel; Wrestling And Wrestlers SUNFLOWERS, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Earth-coloured people, potato eaters Last Line: Hiroshima, nagasaki, %earth-coloured people, who tried to cry Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Hiroshima, Japan SYLLABLES LOST, by CHRISTINE D. BEYER Poem Source First Line: This is how it has been for years Last Line: Drying on the beaches in curved shapes %of her language Subject(s): Japan; Language TANABATA, by SHAWN LYNN WALKER Poem Source First Line: Only one hot night Last Line: The scar from which %a lost child was torn Subject(s): Japan; Memory; Night THE BATH: AUGUST 6, 1945, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathing the summer night Last Line: And to take hold. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Peace; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Social Protest; Survival; War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE DAIMYO'S POND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The swallows come on swift and daring wings Last Line: Who knows that incantation, and will tell? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Lakes; Japanese; Pools; Ponds THE DEATH-STONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What though the vapors of the fleeting screen Last Line: She spake and vanished into thinnest air Subject(s): "buddhism;death Stone (legendary Stone);legends, Japan;" Buddha;buddhists THE ETA, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: When I told you I was an eta I saw you start Last Line: Or so you thought. Subject(s): Japan; Kindness; Social Classes; Japanese; Caste THE FLOWER PATH, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down to this north end of the verandah, across the view Last Line: An actor walks off the flower-path ramp cross-eyed amid shouts. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese THE HORSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They spoke of the horse alive Last Line: Their bones in one mad dance. Subject(s): Animals; Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Horses; Nuclear Freeze THE INVALID, by VIRGINIA FOLEY Poem Text First Line: Old ships are tired sailing into port Last Line: I dream the vagabondage they have known! Subject(s): Boats; Freedom; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Sicily; Liberty; Japanese; Seamen; Sails THE INVIOLATE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There on the white pacific shore the pines Last Line: Swan-like between the mountain and the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Japanese THE LOS ALAMOS MUSEUM, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this museum is a replica of little boy and fat man. In Last Line: Speed of light, but you can see it here in slow motion. Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Museums; Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Art Gallerys; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE MAN IN CHRYSANTHEMUM LAND, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a brave little berry-brown man Last Line: Who fight for chrysanthemum land. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Japan; United States; Valor; Bravery; Japanese; America THE MUSMEE, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The musmee has brown-velvet eyes Last Line: O medeto gozarimas! Subject(s): Japan; Travel; Japanese; Journeys; Trips THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once we three in nara walked Last Line: Than the plain joy, three friends walked there. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Japanese THE STAMP OF CIVILIZATION, by MAX SIMON NORDAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Japan hath western culture? So you say. O vain Last Line: As for japan? Why e'en anti-semitism in her land is quite unknown. Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Japan; Jews; Japanese; Judaism THE VISITOR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly the other side of this world wide Last Line: Pilgrimage singing in the stranger's mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Travel; Japanese; Journeys; Trips THROUGH A GATEWAY IN JAPAN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A torii stood, three miles above the bay Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Japan TO A FRIEND, by HITOMARU Poem Text First Line: Japan is not a land where men need pray Last Line: Will rise within my breast. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese TO THE FORGET-ME-NOTS; ON THE PASS OF THE MAIDEN, JAPAN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Fujiyama's snowy cone / the green horizon bounds Last Line: These alien hills I tread. Subject(s): Forget-me-nots; Grief; Japan; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Japanese TOURIST JAPAN, by TAKENAKA IKU Poem Source First Line: Fujiyama - we sell Last Line: All, all are meek and mild. Yes! Subject(s): Japan TWELVE O'CLOCK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I've come to read a poem Last Line: And everything, forever, everything is changed. Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976); Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; World War Ii; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Parenthood; Feminism; Second World War TWO JAPANESE POEMS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am tired of being japanese Last Line: Anymore, that she is a puppet anyway Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Japan; Women; Japanese TWO JAPANESE POEMS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am tired of being japanese Last Line: Anymore, that she is a puppet anyway Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Japan VISION OF HIROSHIMA, by OSCAR HAHN Poem Source First Line: Launched over the triple city a unique projectile Last Line: And what shall we do with all the ashes? Subject(s): Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War WAITING FOR DAWN, by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrying on my trip Subject(s): Japan WALKAROUND, FOR NEKO; KAMAKURA 11/10/96, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old pone Last Line: & nothing more Subject(s): Japan WARBLER'S SONG IN THE DUSK, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I crossed an ocean Last Line: And the soul sings out again Subject(s): Japan; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing And Singers WATERLILIES AND JAPANESE BRIDGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is the drowsy girl who rows 'between the sleeping Last Line: "-is it from him? Or around him? His old man's forehead / Subject(s): Bridges; Flowers; Japan; Japanese WATERLILIES AND JAPANESE BRIDGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is the drowsy girl who rows 'between the sleeping Last Line: - is it from him? Or around him? His old man's forehead %garlanded Subject(s): Bridges; Flowers; Japan WELCOME TO HIROSHIMA, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is what you first see, stepping off the train Last Line: Worked its filthy way out like a tongue. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Hiroshima, Japan; Literary Form; World War Ii; Nuclear Freeze; Second World War YOSHIWARA, by LOUISE VANDERPOOL Poem Text First Line: Before a thirteenth year was old Last Line: Behind a screen of ho ho birds. Subject(s): Japan; Prostitution; Japanese; Harlots; Whores; Brothels |
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