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231 items
- Poetry & creative work
Friends
A poem expresses gratitude for friends’ support and the wish to become strong enough to offer comfort in return.
- Poetry & creative work
A Wretched Fool
A poetic speaker wakes in hospital, struggling with shame and gratitude while words for new poems begin to emerge.
- Poetry & creative work
So it Goes.
A Japanese poem borrows Vonnegut’s familiar phrase while questioning how to live honestly amid uncertainty.
- Poetry & creative work
Man is Mortal
A Japanese poem uses an English refrain to reflect humorously on possessions, memory and the journey beyond life.
- Poetry & creative work
A Dark Fate
A journey through the cedar-lined road to Nikko becomes an image of a difficult love and a fate two people hope to share.
- Poetry & creative work
Hope
A poem urges the speaker to act on personal interests and build confidence through small steps.
- Poetry & creative work
My Inner Conflict
A very short poem captures the silence that comes from anticipating every possible reply.
- Poetry & creative work
A Self Full of Conflict
A speaker reflects on years of illness and the wish to help others, interrupted by birds and a helicopter over a green landscape.
- Poetry & creative work
In Conflict with Myself
A poem set in Ikuta’s green space links impatience after prolonged illness with birds vanishing into the trees.
- Poetry & creative work
What I Could Not Say
A poem addresses feelings left unspoken when love makes honesty, loneliness and the hope of comfort difficult to admit.
- Poetry & creative work
Bon Holidays in Tsugaru
A poem brings ancestral remembrance together with the drums, painted floats and shared excitement of a Tsugaru festival.
- Poetry & creative work
Makeup
Changing colours before a mirror becomes a small act of transformation and a question about how to face a loved one.