"Title this" Contest

  • swill
    17 years ago

    Okay, I want you guys to title a poem I pose before you...best title wins...a title a person..

    we go until ten titles...

    right then, here it is:

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    I flew in from the North
    the other day
    and it rained in Kyoto
    yesterday

    I stood under a silk umbrella
    as the roof drummed
    and the water slithered quietly
    into the angry river
    beneath the suburb bridge

    there stood a stick in rags --
    the maid -- only seven monsoons old
    shivering as her scrawny frame
    fluttered in the gusts
    and fingers embraced a pole
    as the rain thumped against her
    paleness

    but her eyes, her eyes!
    with all their redness and soreness --
    from lack of care
    and sleep
    and kindly blinks --
    stared starkly toward
    the window

    I peered inside, curious,
    and a white faced goddess,
    draped in all the silk and gold of Japan
    poured tea and royalty
    as the guest smiled back
    in that peculiar American fashion

    I turned to see the girl,
    no less frozen,
    and her eyes
    no less redder or sorer
    or sharper

    and I saw more Geisha
    in those eyes -- red, sore, and sharp --
    than all of Japan
    ever
    showed me
    --------------------------------------------

  • Avrii Monrielle
    17 years ago

    Eyes of Japan

  • Beautiful Chaos
    17 years ago

    A Woman Concealed

  • HOLLYWOODxBANGBANG
    17 years ago

    A Rainy Day in Kyoto

  • *Charisma*
    17 years ago

    Vision of Japan

  • Synh
    17 years ago

    The Storm Geisha

  • Jessica
    17 years ago

    Crimson Stained Women.

    Lol, sorry, the best I could come up with.

  • Gem
    17 years ago

    A Geisha's Eyes?

  • Elynnka
    17 years ago

    Clarity Reflected Within Sore Eyes

  • Hey Brittknee
    17 years ago

    Silk umbrella

  • Dan
    17 years ago

    Lol

    Memroirs Of The Geisha.

    HAHAHA all I could think of except The Misery Of Japan or The Red Sun On White or something along those lines (like the japanese flag)

  • Dan
    17 years ago

    Or you could name it in japanese.

  • Dan
    17 years ago

    赤及び白精神

    I translated that I don't know if its right but its

    The Red and White Spirit

  • Gem
    17 years ago

    Not trying to cause trouble, my title was a fairly crap one anyway but Mizzy basically took that and changed it around, that must be against the rules?

  • swill
    17 years ago

    I...umnn...am not sure...they are actually two titles, and on the other hand she did take a cue from your work...
    But the winner is neither, I'm sorry to say...

    All of the titles are amazing, but one just totally caught my eye: Storm Geisha.

    Congratulations Synh!

  • Synh
    17 years ago

    Haha, thanks. The 1st contest I've won all year lol