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- Poetry & creative work
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.
- Poetry & creative work
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.
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Separated While Still Alive
A poetic speaker recalls separation from three daughters, holding guilt, affection and the wish for reunion together.
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In the Scent of Osmanthus
A chance glimpse of a former partner during the osmanthus season brings back affection and the recognition of separate lives.
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Thanks to Others
A short poem expresses gratitude for the kindness that has sustained the speaker and a wish to offer the same to others.
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Me
A poem examines spiralling thoughts and a difficult relationship before claiming responsibility for one’s own mood and future.
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Don’t Give Up
A poem offers encouragement through images of childhood freedom, resting wings and the possibility of beginning again.
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Your Destiny
A poem imagines choice as a key held in one’s own hand and asks what kind of future to open.
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The Poems Take No Notice
A playful meditation contrasts human mortality with poems that refuse to follow their maker into death.