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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JAPANESE Matches Found: 325 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's in geta shoes Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming 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 AMERICAN SON, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was ten Last Line: What good %is a son %in america Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Japanese Americans - Internment; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AN ORAN AND HER KAMUSO, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gilded hummingbirds are whizzing Last Line: Of the emperor's jewel-trees. Subject(s): Prints, Japanese ANATOMY OF THE INFINITE, by MARTHA WEBB Poem Source First Line: Woman. It is a word Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans ANITA SKY, by ROB WILSON Poem Source First Line: I marinated her heart Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans ARREST, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Torawaruru Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans ASS WHY HARD, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sit out on the concrete slab Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 THE STRONGHOLD, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Miles is so sufficient Last Line: In my own, in my own, %wisdom and dignity %as a man Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Asian Americans - Japanese; Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Music And Musicians AT THE VOLCANO INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Shokudo ni Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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: 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: 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: [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 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 AUTUMN ON NAN-YUEH (WITH THE EXILED UNIVERSITIES OF PEKING), by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If flight's as general as this Last Line: The streams will chatter as they flow Subject(s): China - Japanese Invasions (1874-1945); Nan-yueh (mountain); Universities & Colleges 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 BEDTIME STORY, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time, %an old japanese legend Last Line: I shouted %'that's the end?' Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment BLOCK 4 BARRACK 4 'APT' C, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The barbed fence %protected us Last Line: And a barracksful %of ears shed tears Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment BREAKING SILENCE, by JANICE MIRIKITANI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are miracles that happen, she said Last Line: Our language is beautiful. Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment C & H SUGAR STRIKE KAHUKU, 1923, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You waken to food Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CACTI, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am an expectant guest Last Line: It is already old Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment CANE CUTTERS, by JULIET S. KONO Poem Source First Line: It is early morning. The brave Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CHINESE HOT POT, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: My dream of america Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and Last Line: Sting. These chrysanthemums stolen, crossing an ocean to %return them Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CINCINNATI, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom at last %in this town aimless Last Line: Everyone knew me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Japanese Americans - Internment; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CLEAR EYES, by TAMATHA F. Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CONCENTRATION CONSTELLATION, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: In this earthly configuration Last Line: Of a twisted and remembered fence Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Japanese Americans - Internment; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864 CONFESSIONS, by YUN DONG-JU Poem Source First Line: My face that shows life Last Line: Of a lonely man walking sadly %under a blazing meteor Subject(s): Korea - Japanese Colonial Rule 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 COUPLE OF GEESE OVER PHOENIX, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source Last Line: It's unmistakable: fall is in the air Subject(s): Immigrants; Japanese Americans - Internment; Oregon; Prisons And Prisoners 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 COYOTE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We spotted him scouting antelope along bison basin road Last Line: Until the curve of his ribs began to cool beneath my fingers Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CRACK SEED, by KATHY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: The bodhisattva Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans CURFEW, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In our area Last Line: There must be no light Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's in geta shoes Last Line: Shaped welts on yellow ivory Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming DEAR REIKO: 1968 - 1978, by JODY MANABE Poem Source First Line: We buy books to keep our secrets Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans DESERT FLOWERS, by JANICE MIRIKITANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers / faded Last Line: Scatter in the wind. Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Mothers DESERT MYSTIQUE, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every year on the face of glossy Last Line: Like a well-combed %zen garden Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment DESERT RUN, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I return to the desert Last Line: I will die %and so will you Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment DESERT STORM, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Near the mess hall Last Line: This was %re %location Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment DESERT UNDER GLASS, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the buckwheat Last Line: By one %steady %inward %eye Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment DIALOGUE, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said %don't Last Line: Looking out %the window Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment EASTER: WAHIAWA, 1959: 1, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain stopped for one afternoon Last Line: Which grandmother had been simmering %in vinegar and blue color all morning Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans EASTER: WAHIAWA, 1959: 2, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When grandfather was a young boy Last Line: Marine-colored shells across his lap %was something like what the ocean gives %the beach after a rai Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 ENRYO, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Enryo is a japanese word Last Line: Saying no %trouble at all Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment ETIQUETTE, by JEAN YAMASAKI TOYAMA Poem Source First Line: Eating a fish head is an art Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans EVACUATION, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As we boarded the bus Last Line: Note smiling faces %a lesson to tokyo Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment 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 FACES ON THE UNPAVED ROAD PAST MOKULE'IA, by WINI TERADA Poem Source First Line: Your long dark hair streams behind you Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 FEVER, by JO ANN UCHIDA Poem Source First Line: They had burned my letters Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FISH STORY, by DEAN H. HONMA Poem Source First Line: Yeah that time when we went kapoho Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FISH WIFE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming FISH WIFE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip Last Line: And gleaming coils of fine, silk twine Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming FORGING A PASSPORT, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the north side where wind and water Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FORT SILL INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Komi ageru Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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: 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 FREEWAY POEM, by LAURIE KURIBAYASHI Poem Source First Line: He's right Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FRESNO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Fresno, california's eighth largest city, is the financial headquarters Last Line: Watered by want, the spirit thrives Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; California; Ethnic Groups - United States 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 FUJI-YAMA, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: As an old noble-lady Last Line: A fiery heart leaps. Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Old Age; Women; Japanese In The United States GIRL POWDERING HER NECK, by CATHY SONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light is the inside Subject(s): Kitagawa Utamuro (1753-1806); Prints, Japanese GIRL POWDERING HER NECK, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The light is the inside Last Line: Touch in the middle of the lake %and drift apart Subject(s): Kitagawa Utamuro (1753-1806); Prints, Japanese GRANDMOTHER AND THE WAR, by JULIET S. KONO Poem Source First Line: She memorized the pledge of allegiance Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans GREAT GRANDMA, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great %grandmama's savings Last Line: When used up %time to die Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment GUILTY ON BOTH COUNTS, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I glide in my bullet train Last Line: Nine hours from tokyo Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by TOKUJI HIRAI Poem Source First Line: Looking at summer moon Last Line: We are living in alien (enemy) land Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by TOKUJI HIRAI Poem Source First Line: Early moon has set Last Line: People unable to sleep %whispering Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by HIDEO ITO Poem Source First Line: Thin shadow of tule reed Last Line: On barbed wire fence Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by KYOTARO KOMURO Poem Source First Line: Lingering summer heat Last Line: On dusty white road Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by KYOTARO KOMURO Poem Source First Line: Passed guard tower Last Line: Before summer daybreak Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by KYOTARO KOMURO Poem Source First Line: Want to be with children Last Line: Of irrigation ditch Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by HEKISAMEI MATSUDA Poem Source First Line: Doll without a head Last Line: One evening Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by RYOKUIN MATSUI Poem Source First Line: Sprinkling water outside Last Line: In full force and barefooted Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SUIKO MATSUSHITA Poem Source First Line: Rain shower from mountain Last Line: Barbed wire fence Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SUIKO MATSUSHITA Poem Source First Line: Oh shells Last Line: Is slowly crumbling Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by HYAKUISSEI OKAMOTO Poem Source First Line: Dandelion has bloomed Last Line: Of what consequence? Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by HYAKUISSEI OKAMOTO Poem Source First Line: Jeep patrolling slowly Last Line: Stove is glowing %at night Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SHIHO OKAMOTO Poem Source First Line: Being arrested Last Line: At home peony bud %still firm Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SHIHO OKAMOTO Poem Source First Line: In the shade of summer sun Last Line: Guard tapping rock %with club Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SHIHO OKAMOTO Poem Source First Line: In the sage brush Last Line: Torrid wind blows Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by NEIJI OZAWA Poem Source First Line: Desert rain falling Last Line: Then fall asleep Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SEI SAGARA Poem Source First Line: Suddenly awakened Last Line: Listening to bugle from guard house moonlight Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SHONAN SUZUKI Poem Source First Line: Withered grass on ground Last Line: Army tank creaking %in the wind Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SHONAN SUZUKI Poem Source First Line: Moon shadows on internment camp Last Line: Again this year Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SENBINSHI TAKAOKA Poem Source First Line: Frosty morning Last Line: Today I became a woodcutter Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SENBINSHI TAKAOKA Poem Source First Line: Winter wind Last Line: Goat bleating Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SADAYO TANIGUCHI Poem Source First Line: Hand-culled and taken away Last Line: Even today Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by HANGETSU TSUNEKAWA Poem Source First Line: Sentry at main gate Last Line: In evening sun Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SACHIKO UVEMARUKO Poem Source First Line: On certain days Last Line: Flowers of gobo are purple Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by SACHIKO UVEMARUKO Poem Source First Line: Grieving within Last Line: Oats on the ground Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by HANKURO WADA Poem Source First Line: Young grass red and shriveled Last Line: Wide sandy flat %and gritty wind Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by HANKURO WADA Poem Source First Line: Released seagull Last Line: Summer morning in highlands Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by HANKURO WADA Poem Source First Line: Even the croaking of frogs Last Line: This is our life Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HAIKU, by JYOSHA YAMADA Poem Source First Line: Black clouds instantly shroud Last Line: Hail storming against us today also Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HARMONY AT THE FAIR GROUNDS, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why is the soldier boy in a cage Last Line: Lines for the john %lines for shots Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HARU ASAKI, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under Last Line: To keep from blowing away Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 10. MINORU SAITO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I shaved my head and became Last Line: That made me say no Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital Last Line: I see the man-in-the-moon Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 3. MASA NAKAHARA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am thinking about the temple Last Line: Serial number in its ear Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish are heavier than coal Last Line: Between flames and water Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish are heavier than coal Last Line: Between flames and water Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 5. LILY IWASAKI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minoru, it's been over a month Last Line: Full of rage and cunning Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 6. SAM TOYAMA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother held up a wrinkled fashion Last Line: Kicking me in the face inside her Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 7. NINA INOUE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the shoe ration, I can't play Last Line: I learned what it means to be kind Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 8. YOSHIO MIYAKE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It sours my incense, disturbs the sleep Last Line: Will suddenly wake, eyes spitting blood Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 9. CHIKAKO OKANO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know tweezing away dead skin Last Line: The scars I leave behind Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HIROSHIGE, by MARK M. PERLBERG Poem Source First Line: Print, with his hand, his eye, was more than print Last Line: And, in the hollow, the dream-hung, %the fog-blurred grave Subject(s): Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858); Prints, Japanese HIROSHIMA MAIDEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother recognized / my feet and claimed me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HIROSHIMA MAIDEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother recognized %my feet and claimed me Last Line: Richly embroidered %by unfamiliar hands Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HO. JUST CAUSE I SPEAK PIDGIN NO MEAN I DUMB, by DIANE HINA KAHANU Poem Source First Line: Pidgin short Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans HOLE IN THE WALL, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We bumble into the mojave Last Line: Impatient to shed our citiness Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment HOMECOMING, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Akibae no Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans HOMECOMING, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I widow %redo my life Last Line: To find mama %alive Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment I AM THE EYEBALL LOOKING AT YOU, by KAIPO Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans I CAUGHT HIM ONCE, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Gruff old fut Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans IKUMAN O, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans IN MY BODY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans IN THE OUTHOUSE, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our collective wastebin Last Line: I am drowning Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment INHERITANCE, by WANDA FUJIMOTO Poem Source First Line: My grandmother died Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 INSIDE NEWS, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A small group Last Line: Are now the children Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Let us take %what we can Last Line: Let there be %order. %let us be %wise Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Asian Americans - Japanese; Concentration Camps; Home; Japanese Americans - Internment ISSEI, THE JAPANESE LADY, by JESSICA KAWASUNA SAIKI Poem Source First Line: She wears brown as a carapace, annonymous as Last Line: The paper screen, the brown Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Conversation; Culture Conflict; Friendship; Guests 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, -- 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 PRINT, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Both skyed %in south-west wind beyond Last Line: Rice-coloured air, %sharako, hokusai! Subject(s): Prints, Japanese 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 JAZZ, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The music speaks for itself. And it certainly spoke to me. It called me Last Line: And before he knew it, he was writing poetry Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Ethnic Groups - United States; Jazz; Music And Musicians JUNIOR GOT THE SNAKES, by MICHAEL MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: One time Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans KAKITSUBATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell you otherwise Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming; Dreams KAKITSUBATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell %you otherwise Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming 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 KIM CHEE TEST, by JOSEPH STANTON Poem Source First Line: It wasn't because Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans KUAN YIN MINGLES WITH THE GHOSTS, NOW ON GUIDED TOUR, by KATHY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: I kept my self-respect by loving every stone I carried Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans KUAN YIN TURNS HER PHOTO ALBUM TO A CERTAIN POINT, by KATHY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: When pressed, kuan yin explains Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans KWANNON, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the ancient one, the many-handed Last Line: I give them death. Subject(s): Mythology - Japanese KWANNON, THE COMPASSIONATE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Source First Line: This on a god's face? Subject(s): Mythology - Japanese LAS HORAS DE VERDAD (THE HOURS OF TRUTH), by JILL E. WIDNER Poem Source First Line: Would the hours of truth discourage her Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LAST TURNINGS OF THE SEASON'S WHEEL, by DEBRA THOMAS Poem Source First Line: As the last turnings of the season's wheel Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 LEGENDS FROM CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: It began as truth, as fact Last Line: Will anyone ever need %another camp director Subject(s): Buddhism; Concentration Camps; Crime And Criminals; History; Japanese Americans - Internment; Legends; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Terror LETTER TO PARIS, by GAIL N. HARADA Poem Source First Line: Old letters accumulate like dust on my desk Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LICHENS, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While we sleep in our tents Last Line: And fledgling ferns to %make our desert lawn Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment LIKE LOVE, by LAURIE KURIBAYASHI Poem Source First Line: What you will remember are his hands Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans LITTLE MAID OF FAR JAPAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Little maid upon my fan Last Line: Do you like this other place? Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Children; January; Japanese In The United States; Childhood LOOKING BACK AT CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: To get into the fair Last Line: This is not amache!' Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Concentration Camps; Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners 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 MARRIAGE WAS A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I come to be here Last Line: I was not a picture bride %I only was afraid Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Marriage MESS HALL DISCIPLINE, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mother drew my eyes Last Line: And abundant tears Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment MINIDOKA, IDAHO, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In minidoka %I ordered a pair of white Last Line: We rescued them %from the bullies Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment MITTEN SPRINGS: 1. BENNY'S PLACE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We made camp %by the springs Last Line: Flung from the snow Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming MITTEN SPRINGS: 2. ANTELOPE HUNTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stirring up grouse Last Line: Of dust and hoofbeats Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming MITTEN SPRINGS: 3. GUTTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sawing the ribcage %was hard work Last Line: The spicy sage taste %run through me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming NIGHT BEFORE GOOD-BYE, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mama is mending Last Line: Remember %keep your underwear %in good repair %in case of accident %don't bring shame %on us Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment NINGYO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took me everywhere Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming NINGYO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took me everywhere Last Line: Opening the sky Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming 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 OBON: FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of the festival uncle leads our Last Line: The sky is aflame as thousands of silent roman %candles float out with the tide Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Japanese Americans - Internment; Rites And Ceremonies ODE TO SHUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gleaming arc / of knife Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming ODE TO SHUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gleaming arc %of knife Last Line: A white moon Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming 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 BEING ASIAN AMERICAN, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Of course, not everyone %can be an asian american Last Line: As the rest of the world %comes forward to greet you Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese 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 BUS, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who goes? %not the leaders of the people Last Line: Where the first baby %was christened %melody Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment ON THE CONCLUSION OF PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lyre, - 'tis written, - in ages long ago Last Line: So be she born again! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Peace; Sino-japanese War (1894-95) ON THE SHIP TO THE MAINLAND, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Nobishi tsume Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans ONLY JAPANESE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Though to talk too much of heaven Last Line: Japanese Subject(s): Japanese Language;translating & Interpreting ORDER, by DENNIS KAWAHARADA Poem Source First Line: The fields seemed chaotic to him Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 OYURUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We danced hopscotch squares Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming OYURUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We danced hopscotch squares Last Line: I am your sister Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming P.O.W.: 1, by JACK YASUTAKE Poem Source First Line: I sit %inside these fences Last Line: Were left outside Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment P.O.W.: 2, by JACK YASUTAKE Poem Source First Line: My daily routine Last Line: Has nothing to do with %my appetite Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment PA-KE, by HERBERT CHUN Poem Source First Line: You speak of shadows Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans PEACH GIRL, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apprehended by snow Last Line: And you will spit it out Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEARLS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEARLS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles Last Line: It hurts. And the more it hurts, %the bigger the pearl Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming 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 PEONY LANTERN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not forget me Last Line: Her own limbs, one by one Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LOVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LOVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars Last Line: Of peony petals crumpling in my fists Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming 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 POEM FOR GEORGE HELM ALOHA WEEK 1980, by ERIC EDWARD CHOCK Poem Source First Line: I was in love with the word 'aloha' Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans POEMS FROM AMACHE CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Dear lawson, %2 ys u r, %s ys u b Last Line: I meet you at %amache gate! %always, %naomi Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Japanese Americans - Internment; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864 POEMS IN STONE, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Mighty willamette! %beautiful friend Last Line: Was our old community. %echoes! Echoes! Echoes! Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Poetry And Poets PURSUING A CAREER: 2. WORD PROCESSING, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Intern(m)e(n)t Subject(s): Computers; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Professions QUESTION OF LOYALTY, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I met the deadline Last Line: My only ticket out Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment RAIN QUIETUDE, by GARY RICHARD KISSICK Poem Source First Line: In sleep made of sleep and remembrance, a few raindrops Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans RECRUITING TEAM, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Returning from the hospital Last Line: I have a right to be %drafted Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment RED EARTH, BLUE SKY, PETRIFIED, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: A soft melody, over and over Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Asian Americans - Japanese; Melodies REVIEWING THE SCENE, by GARY TACHIYAMA Poem Source First Line: Eleanor, don't do it' Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans RIDING THE NORTH POINT FERRY, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Wrinkles: like Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans SAD DESIGN, by SHIN SUK-JUNG Poem Source First Line: Heaven %and I Last Line: What star in the night sky can soothe my mind? Subject(s): Korea - Japanese Colonial Rule SANTA FE INTERNMENT CAMP, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Ashi no ue ni Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 SEARCH AND RESCUE, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We joined the party Last Line: Up against the stone wall. %enshrined Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment 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 SEVEN WORDS OF POETRY, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: All this happened on the same day, as I remember -- the seven words Last Line: Museum! Tell me mama-san -- how long have you been in this oday fresh! Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; English As A Second Language; Poetry And Poets SHARAKU DREAMS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will scrawl on the walls of the night Last Line: Starting. Subject(s): Prints, Japanese SOME PEOPLE WALKED THROUGH, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Please do not feed me Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment SOME YEARS AGO, by CAROLINE GARRETT Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans SOMEDAY, BUT FOR NOW, by GARY TACHIYAMA Poem Source First Line: I take my place among you Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 AT HANALEI, by MARTHA WEBB Poem Source First Line: A gesture of the sea Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans SONG IN BARBAROUS FUMAROLE OF THE JAPANESE CRESTED IBIS, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To claim as arcane vapour Last Line: Of stunning axial omegas Subject(s): Japanese Ibis 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 SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush Last Line: And pry each of my petals loose Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming SONGS FROM THE ANCIENT AND MODERN, by JAN DAY FEHRMAN Poem Source First Line: The island is a flower closing Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 SQUID, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purplish pink, their bodies were mottled with black dots, like Last Line: Water, and when I held them up to my nose they smelled like %another country Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 1. SUMIDA RIVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rice-paper lanterns bob Last Line: The sides of the boats %in judgment Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 2. ORIHIME'S SONG, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came from mulberry trees Last Line: To have you inside me again Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 3. A THOUSAND CRANES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to the bamboo grove Last Line: I am selfish Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STRANGE SCENT, by TAMARA LAULANI WONG-MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Hear the beating of the pahu Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans T'ANG FISHERMEN, by DANA NAONE HALL Poem Source First Line: I will recognize you Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TAKING HER TO THE OPEN MARKET, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Scales glisten Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TANKA, by TAISANBOKU MOTOKAZU MORI Poem Source First Line: My comrade Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by TAISANBOKU MOTOKAZU MORI Poem Source First Line: In my dream Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by TAISANBOKU MOTOKAZU MORI Poem Source First Line: Gazing at the barracks Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: For those who work Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Biting down my overgrown nails Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Sailing on the same ship Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: In the sudden downpour Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: As if to relish Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: I bid farewell Subject(s): Farewell; Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: Within just ten days Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: When the war is over Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: Beyond the forbidding fence Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: A fellow prisoner Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: Since there is no one Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: Many a friend Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: My elongated shadow Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: Late autumn gale Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: How menacing the howl is Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: Behind the moving train Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: After a long half year Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: As I doze at dawn Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: There is nothing Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Koko head nears Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Stained in blue Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Sailing the same sea Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: With morning sunlight Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: A flock of black birds Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: In this desolate field Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Fifty and more Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: How lonely the delicate sound Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Ants climbing up my foot Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: My hands lightly touch Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Should I talk Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: My wife and children Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: After nightfall Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Even for the short time Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: How many more thousand miles Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: Autumn deepens Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: While the mp's wait Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: AN INTERNEE MOURNS FOR HIS SON WHO DIED IN ITALY, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: As thou light a candle Subject(s): Death - Children; Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: ARREST, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: The time has come Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: AT THE SAND ISLAND CAMP, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: Like a dog %I am commanded Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: AT THE VOLCANO INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: I look around %the hushed darkness Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: DEATH AT THE CAMP, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: The barren wasteland Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii - Japanese-americans TANKA: FIRST STAND ON THE MAINLAND, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: I stand in the fog Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: FORT SILL INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: A wretching anguish rises Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: HOMECOMING, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: A thin autumn fly Subject(s): Homecoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: LORDSBURG INTERNMENT CAMP, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: There is no fence Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: ON THE SHIP TO THE MAINLAND, by KEIHO YASUTARO SOGA Poem Source First Line: From the cabin window Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: ON THE TRAIN, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Far beyond the desert Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: SANTA FE INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: I stand in line Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANKA: TULE LAKE INTERNMENT CAMP, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: Disloyal' Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TANSU I, by RAYNETTE TAKIZAWA Poem Source First Line: In old tansu drawers Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 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 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 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 STARS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a goddess who walks shrouded by day Last Line: Men only see her naked glory through the little holes in the veil. Subject(s): Prints, Japanese 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 THE WHITE PORCH, by CATHY SONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrap the blue towel Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans THE WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you stand outside my gate Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming THIRTY YEARS UNDER, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had packed up Last Line: Than being spat on %like a dog Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment 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 BUDDY, ON THE EDGE, by DEAN H. HONMA Poem Source First Line: Buddy calls the other day Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 TREMBLING, by JILL E. WIDNER Poem Source First Line: The butterfly was caught Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TRIBE, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was born Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans TRICK WAS, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But the mind was not fooled Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment TUTU ON THE CURB, by ERIC EDWARD CHOCK Poem Source First Line: Tutu standing on the corner Subject(s): Loss; World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 UTOYASUKATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's a black bird Last Line: And you'll say yasukata Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming WATCHTOWER, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We loved and we lived %just like people Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment WATER BORN, by NORMAN HINDLEY Poem Source First Line: Moomomi beach, narrow and hooked like a horseshoe Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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 WE SAW THREE DIFFERENT STORE-LADIES, by SHERI MAE AKAMINE Poem Source Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans WHAT YOUR MOTHER TELLS YOU, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What you mother tells you now Last Line: You will come to know Subject(s): Japanese Americans - Internment WHERE YOU SLEEP, by DEBRA THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The moon nears our zenith Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans WHITE PORCH, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wrap the blue towel Last Line: Cloth, hair and hands %smuggling you in Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you stand outside my gate Last Line: My honeybee. %my centipede Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming YONSEI, by JULIET S. KONO Poem Source First Line: I hear the music Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans 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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