Ikigai: Petals in Stillness
...Spring — Passion
Kintsugi dawn—
white plum scents night air
tea rises in stillness.
Cranes cross pale sky;
child laughter drifts on moss.
A garden remembers.
Summer — Vocation<...
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Categories:
shoji, childhood, family, memory, nature,
Form: Lyric
A Triad of Tanka I
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Sat on a park bench
She exposes her heavy breasts;
Offers him a teat.
Lewd men inwardly applaud
This conformability.
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Categories:
shoji, appreciation, character, culture,
Form: Tanka
Silently
...With your death this old house mourns as decay smiles
Once a life of glamour held her room of pink brocade
Now ivy grows through broken hearts of girlhood wiles
To smother closet doors as weeping ...
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Categories:
shoji, death, loss,
Form: Rhyme
A Silhouette
...Plush red velvet pillows rest secluded
light bent amid scenic shoji screens
ornate vines twist and turn giving way
a silhouette stares ahead without face
Pin pricked blood blackened by pain
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Categories:
shoji, analogy, dark, feelings,
Form: Free verse
A Tanto's Key
...His blade cuts through the branches
the dark silence of the moment
bleeds through his kimono
as heavy breath stalks into zen
across the treetops spooks the owl
a tender footstep ~
a glimmer o...
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Categories:
shoji, death, devotion, lost love,
Form: Lyric