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Monthly Archives: October 2023
Rites
From the series, Japan Poems Down by the river, a boy and his grandfather– Soft grass grows through stone.
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Tagged boy, family, grandfather, grass, haiku, japan, niigata, poem, river, shinano river, stone
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Where We Are Not
From the series, Japan Poems A turned head beckons the promise of faraway– Lie again, softly.
Seasons
From the series, Japan Poems Street festival, June, summer kimonos in bloom– Autumn waits its turn.
Umbrella
From the series, Japan Poems Eternity found in grains of sand, scoured by sea– Pairing, without qualms.
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Tagged beach, eternity, haiku, japan, moments in time, niigata, pairing, poem, portrait, sea of japan, umbrella
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Silk
From the series, Japan Poems Flowers in the dark smell different from flowers not in the dark. Hands part silk to sunder the gauzy veils of sleep with tenderest unconditional regards.
Innocent When We Dream
From the series, Japan Poems The longing for peace in loving sync with repose– The softest route home.
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Tagged ancestors room, dreams, haiku, home, japan, peace, poem, portrait, sleep, watched over
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The Journey
From the series, Japan Poems. No words to describe this passing sense, here now gone– Dreaming in real-time.
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Tagged bullet train, going home, haiku, japan, melancholy of departure, poem, portrait, train
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Respite
From the series, Japan Poems Fleeting intervals where a pause is magnified to widen one’s berth.
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Tagged mother, niigata, pause, poem, portrait, street festival
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Give Us This Day
From the series, Japan Poems. In lieu of the Last Supper, I give you Lunch at the Ramen Shop, each man a disciple unto his own appetite to savor the slow heaven of noodles in pews of intimate congregation.
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Tagged japan, lunch, niigata, poem, Poetry, portrait, ramen, ramen shop
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A Moveable Feast
From the series, Japan Poems. In search of lost time, in a realm of sea changes– Your last step, your first.
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Tagged haiku, japan, lost time, poem, portrait, sado island, sea changes, sky
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