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- Poetry & creative work
Flow of the Kinugawa River
A poem entrusts difficult feelings to the Kinugawa River, moving between tenderness, forgiveness and pain that remains unresolved.
- Poetry & creative work
Romance
A poem describes intimacy through silent glances, the warmth of a hand and the quickening of a heartbeat.
- Poetry & creative work
Fly through the Night Sky
A poem imagines flight over the lights of the city as a refuge from hurtful words, recalling the imaginative freedom of childhood.
- Poetry & creative work
Passing Each Other By
A short poem depicts two hesitant hearts whose shared feelings do not quite reach each other.
- Poetry & creative work
Scenery Yet Unseen
A poem imagines a future landscape shared with a loved one whose guarded heart remains difficult to reach.
- Poetry & creative work
Meetings and Partings
A poem moves from the wonder of an encounter to the fragility of unspoken affection and a grateful farewell.
- Poetry & creative work
A Hydrangea Called First Love
Pink hydrangeas after rain accompany a poem about friendship becoming love and the feeling of beginning anew.
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The Door to an Unclouded Heart
A poem reflects on the childlike openness that can remain within an adult heart and the act of listening for it.
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You in a Landscape Yet Unseen
A poem expresses the hope of sharing an unknown future with someone whose heart appears closed.
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The Traveller from the Deep Forest
A poem portrays a wounded, withdrawn figure through forest imagery and imagines a journey toward hope that must begin with that person’s own choice.
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The Heart Is Weather
A poem compares changing moods to weather and considers how difficult experiences may eventually become nourishment for life.
- Poetry & creative work
The Heart Is a Lonely Traveller
An introduction to a contemporary poet brings poems together with literary commentary on loneliness, emotional experience and the impulse to write.