between tokyo skyscrapers <br />her brilliant white powdered face dazzles <br />fancy of a thousand samurais <br />charming dainty seductive <br />unobstrusive sakura <br />first snow in summer <br />all year spring song <br /> <br />between the clinks of sake <br />heartstirring samisen driven ditties <br />she cheers up globe trotting <br />samurais now armed only with wads <br />of yen for ammunition <br /> <br />geisha a fragrant night bloom <br />opens tokyo to its riveting and <br />colourful past <br />her acuity is sharp as <br />a samurai sword <br />mellifluous vocals and <br />and dance gaits graceful <br />as spring swans <br /> <br />she softens the staunchest <br />of hearts warms, lightens up <br />their winter years <br />converting jaded souls <br />to a new morrow <br /> <br />her poems, haikus, tankas and <br />ancient tales put back the <br />lost souls into the modern samurais <br />in suits and ties <br /> <br />between jokes and heartfelt praises <br />her fame grows <br />between their laughters, joy <br />she rests her years <br /> <br />geisha.......geisha...her dainty steps <br />echo in the hearts of modern folks <br />her knowledge of old and new japan <br />should scale the sky<br /><br />john tiong chunghoo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/famous-movie-poem-memoirs-of-a-geisha/
