The international team of the multilingual magazine «ArtMedia» presents a famous poet from Japan Taro Hokkyo and his work «KlNG OF WORDS».

Taro Hokkyo 1998 Rekitei Shinei Award in Japan.
2021 Arab Golden Planet Award.
2022Awarded the title of Doctor of Letters from the Arabic-speaking world.
2023 My poems are published in Orfew.al magazine in Albania.
Also translated into Italian2024 My poem is published in the Daily Global Nation in Bangladesh.
My poems published in Samantaral Bhabna, India.Interview with an Algerian newspaper is published.
My poem is published in Greek Police Magazine.
Received a certificate of honor from English poets.
Published in a Korean magazine.
Published in Koltaka jishu International Poetry Magazine, India.
My poem is published in a Greek e-magazine.
My poem is published in the Barcelona Literary Magazine.
My poem is published in Poetry Planetariat, a Nepalese poetry magazine.
My poetry collection is published in Bengali-speaking countries.
Three of my poems were published in India’s Half-yearly magazine.
Three of my poems were published in the Raft of Dreams Literary Magazine.
My poem is published in Hyperpoem in Nepal.
I am submitting a poem to Sophy Chen’s Translation World Poetry Yearbook in China.

KlNG OF WORDS
The high-backed platinum throne had been broken, unbeknownst to the public.
The king, superficially gentle on the surface, had somehow turned into a dictator.
The gray grass grew tall and maddeningly wordy. After the new king,
with his golden maned wild horses, was shot dead, all words were reduced to ashes.
The king of words wore ragged black robes and a lisping tongue.
The promise of the word was too deceptive for the deed.
Losing his congregation, the king shouted something with a loud voice, but it was all muffled in the storm.
People rumored the garden of the king of words to be a glamorous isolated island.
Faith in the lost words has now become a broken throne, a decadence to cover up the misery of the world.
The throne was mischievously manipulated by the blind and deceitful heirs of the throne,
and the words of the land died in a state of decay.