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- Poetry & creative work
A Passing Summer Shower
A summer downpour mirrors anger and grief before it abruptly passes, leaving the speaker beneath drifting clouds.
- 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
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.