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231 items
- Poetry & creative work
Me
A poem examines spiralling thoughts and a difficult relationship before claiming responsibility for one’s own mood and future.
- Poetry & creative work
Don’t Give Up
A poem offers encouragement through images of childhood freedom, resting wings and the possibility of beginning again.
- Poetry & creative work
Your Destiny
A poem imagines choice as a key held in one’s own hand and asks what kind of future to open.
- Poetry & creative work
The Poems Take No Notice
A playful meditation contrasts human mortality with poems that refuse to follow their maker into death.
- Poetry & creative work
Beyond the Clouds, with No Known Way
A hospital awakening leads the poetic speaker to question survival, loss and the uncertain path ahead.
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Summer, June 2023
A June tanka meeting record reflects on the language of extreme heat and discusses poems of remembrance and everyday observation.
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, May 2023
A May tanka meeting record considers changing attitudes to the pandemic and the importance of reading a poem’s clues carefully.
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, April 2023
An April gathering in Kinugasa combines tanka discussion with reflections on the Buddha’s birthday and a local historical walk.
- Poetry & creative work
The Bell Cricket Calls
The sound of autumn crickets becomes an insistent invitation, mingling seasonal change with the image of a pilgrim’s bells.
- Poetry & creative work
Ghosts of Sorrow
A poem gives unexplained sadness the form of ghosts from the past, whispering around the memory of someone who has gone.
- Poetry & creative work
A New Me
A poem imagines each morning as a personal renewal, looking toward changing tastes, relationships and possibilities.
- Poetry & creative work
A Passing Summer Shower
A summer downpour mirrors anger and grief before it abruptly passes, leaving the speaker beneath drifting clouds.