GENIE’S LAMP: Unsung Waka
By GENIE NAKANO *waka means little song in Japanese poets many we are stuck in journals, notebooks, garage sales the un-sung ‘waka’...
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Rafu Shimpo
Aug 8, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Under Water
By GENIE NAKANO man on the corner says worlds going to end darkness prevails get yourself ready to be saved ocean of cars roar on...
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Rafu Shimpo
Aug 1, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Summer Love
By GENIE NAKANO melons bursting on the vine dripping with sweetness, our eyes cling to each other dandelion wine packing all the...
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Rafu Shimpo
Jul 25, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Shushhh
By GENIE NAKANO as night takes over the day and crickets start to thrum, she softly whispers shushhhhhhhhhhhhh as thick trees sigh ...
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Rafu Shimpo
Jul 20, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: The Grass is Green
By GENIE NAKANO looking at my hand the lines and crevices look foreign to me yet, they tell a story from long ago I immerse my hand ...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 30, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Droughtful
By GENIE NAKANO Sky, you’ve been holding on too long pour it on, we need rain for our droughtful minds picking, poking on myself ...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 23, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: A New World Sings
By GENIE NAKANO the train lost speed and just plain stopped no brakes needed natural as the green grass on the other side of the...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 16, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Shamelessly
By GENIE NAKANO white cane tapping he wants to cross the street he is blind so I stare shamelessly into his eyes we are the same...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 9, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Mood Indigo
By GENIE NAKANO Aimi Indigo sky above with a sliver of a crescent moon—- Aimi can move freely—almost invisible–away from the glaring ...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 2, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Beyond Boomer Bash
By GENIE NAKANO dancing in ecstasy Motown rhythms rising yesterday’s sadness danced away at the Big Budokan bash a year older next...
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Rafu Shimpo
Apr 25, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Blossom
By GENIE NAKANO blessed, I was born in May the month when my native land blooms spring unpredictable sun today next day rain ...
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Rafu Shimpo
Apr 18, 20162 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: In the Next Wind
By GENIE NAKANO I’m oriental exotic, mysterious my eyes always half closed with a sultry inner smile no, not generic Asian— ...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 2, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Seasons Turn and Fold
By GENIE NAKANO seasons turn and fold you are young with ideals you must fight serve your country war of the world’s battles on…...
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Rafu Shimpo
Jan 25, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Colorful Short Lives
By GENIE NAKANO dragon kite dancing in the wind lift me up, a thin string is all I need sunlight is what flowers turn to Sensei says...
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Rafu Shimpo
Dec 31, 20151 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Blink into 2016
By Genie Nakano soft rain on New Year’s day glistening rainbows arching across the sky coming our way soon as we blink into a New...
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Rafu Shimpo
Dec 29, 20151 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: New Year
By Genie Nakano and Amelia Fielden New Year dawns at different times throughout the world most folk wishing for peace, some intent on...
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Rafu Shimpo
Dec 21, 20151 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Issa’s Tree
By GENIE NAKANO It had to be…the tree couldn’t go on that way. So the buds on the broken limbs took off immediately. It was a mild...
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Rafu Shimpo
Dec 13, 20151 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Meditation Meltdown
By GENIE NAKANO just want to touch those states of bliss let them drip through my fingers then move on to… where I don’t know ...
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Rafu Shimpo
Nov 17, 20151 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Yin Yang Moon
By GENIE NAKANO casting down on my skin, a silver moon how can needs be fulfilled when what is wanted is not needed waves rolling ...
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Rafu Shimpo
Nov 10, 20151 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Les Vosges, 1944 – Printemps, 2015
By GENIE NAKANO My father explained forest trees became killing machines bursting down with fire thousands of Nisei soldiers went up...
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