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- Poetry & creative work
The Sun and Moon Know
A poem imagines the sun and moon witnessing hidden pain as the speaker struggles toward openness and self-respect.
- Poetry & creative work
A Rainbow Bridge in My Own Colours
A poem celebrates making what does not yet exist and finding an individual voice through imagination.
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On a Christmas Street Corner
A familiar scent in a Christmas crowd brings back a lost relationship before the cold returns the speaker to the present.
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Waiting for Spring
A poem uses the wait for warmth and rain to explore an unfulfilled relationship and the fear of speaking honestly.
- Poetry & creative work
Because of Love
A speaker tries to let go of a relationship without erasing the affection and shared time that once made it precious.
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First Snow
Unspoken affection is traced on a car window and covered by the first snow in a quiet winter scene.
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Nikujaga
A meal of meat and potatoes turns a wish for praise into a quiet recognition of affection expressed without many words.
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Seishu Hamano: Recent Romantic Tanka
A collection of tanka from 2021–2023 returns to parents, home, ageing, illness and the passing of friends.
- Poetry & creative work
Poems of Heartbreak
Two poems revisit shared wineglasses and winter afternoon tea, turning everyday objects into reminders of lost intimacy.
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The Story of a Black Coral Ring
An inherited ring links grandmother, mother and daughter, bringing childhood tenderness into the present.
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Love’s Quagmire
A short poem imagines sinking helplessly into a love that the other person may never understand.
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Another Self Lives Alongside Me
A poem moves through fear and childbirth toward the sense of another life growing alongside the speaker’s own.