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Very Short Poems poetry about cherry blossom, war, Odysseus, the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, poem about a victim of the bombing of Hiroshima and a poem about the cherry blossom season in Japan. |
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Fresh blossoms. |
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The quick flames eat. |
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Blastback! |
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Excerpted from the longer poem Nagasaki, which takes a critical view of the destruction of that city by a nuclear bomb, and which is part of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection. |
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Hiroshima is a woman, her expectation |
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This piece of poetry has been excerpted from the long and ambitious poem Lumberjacked Cities, which deals with the destruction of the cities of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and which is part of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection. |
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It is spring in Japan, and in the spring the cherry blossom is brief but present, a delicate transience which turns our thoughts toward that perennial epiphenomenon of the season: carousing. |
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This very short prose poem captures the spirit of the Japanese cherry blossom season, which is essentially one big outdoor drinking party. The poem is excerpted from the longer poem A Day in the Life of a War, which was written during the Iraq war, and contrasts the festive season in Japan with the ongoing war in the Middle East. This war poem is prat of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection. |