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Assorted modern poems on various subjects, including Japan, America, Malawi, torture, BDSM and other topics.
This interesting selection of miscellaneous poems is part of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, which includes school poems, city poems, nature poems, war poems, cancer poems and death poems. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness. |
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short poems |
school poems |
city poems |
nature poems |
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war poems |
cancer poems |
death poems |
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Paperback Book or US $5 PDF file |
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(assorted topics, miscellaneous themes)
• AFRICA: stereotypes, ignorance. • MALAWI: Madonna, David Banda, political correctness. • YANKLAND: America. • AMERICAN DREAMS: the American dream. • • WHY AMERICA IS HATED: America — the hated nation. • SAVING VIRGINIA: gun control, right to bear arms, Virginia Tech. • GUANTANAMO: war on terror, justice, judicial process, prisoner's rights, American imperialism. • LIFE IN THE GOLDEN AGE: Golden Age, Yokohama Japan (quality of life), utopia. • JAPAN: Japanese culutre, Japanese self-defense force. • THIS IS A PICTURE OF YOUR GOD: blasphemy, free speech, Islam and the West, Mohammed / Muhammad cartoon furore, war between religions. • PLANET EARTH: Earth, planet Earth, science fiction poem. • GENESIS: Creation. • ADAM: Adam, Eden. • HIS DRAGON WORLD: dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus Rex. • MEN WITHOUT AMNESTY: torture (torturers, torturing). • PETITION FOR A FLAT EARTH: conservatism (being conservative), reactionary forces. • BITUMEN MAN: roadworks, motorbike riders. • A RED WHEELBARROW: religion, religious fanaticism. • FIRST KISS: first kiss, kissing. • STILL LIFE sex, sexual attitudes (young men). • LEASHPET: BDSM, sex (bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism). • THE MUSEUM: museum. • TONGA: medical mission, Third World country, Tonga, tropical island. • SPAM: spam. • DRUGS THAT WE TAKE IN DREAMS: fantasy life, road not taken. • HELEN OF TROY: abduction of Helen by Paris, Helen of Troy, Paris (son of Priam, the king of Troy). • IN THE LAND OF BIG BROCCOLI: New Zealand (a Japanese woman visits New Zealand, a place which is, for her, non-normative). • MOZART THE FISH: fetus in womb, pregnancy, pregnant woman, unborn child. |
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