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How to Live

                    How to Live Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Aunt Wilma knew the way to live.  The East (Japan and China, India) she wore Inside and out.  She lived hwe life as feast Or rape, imbibing...

Faith in Christmas and Diwali Flopping Around

Faith in Christmas and Diwali Flopping Around Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Orient is like a bauble tree, Diwali as the floating little boats On Ganges’ flow, a Yuletide stream of ghee In separate...

The Japanese Spirit (Not Saki)

    The Japanese Spirit (Not Saki) The Japanese move porcelain-sweet mugs And cups and kettles, decorated, fine As April cherry blossoms, then as thugs Men dive bomb as imperially divine Themselves to slaughter guys on metal ships, The roasting of the flesh, plunged...

Less Than a Salt East China Sea Between Them

Less Than a Salt East China Sea Between Them Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem  The Indians have a sentiment like love Inside their marrow, marrow of mauve silk, Too like a maharani, lacking shove Of...

Esthetic as Emetic

         Esthetic as Emetic Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem  In general the tasteless in the land (And all lands) much prefer the sheen of gloss, The slickness and the gildedness, the grand And overblown...