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- 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.
- Poetry & creative work
Living Shoes
A pair of secondhand hiking boots at a shrine market draws the speaker into thoughts of their former owner, family and a life still to be lived.
- Poetry & creative work
Fireworks in Tsugaru
A festival evening of yukata, lanterns and fireworks is coloured by feelings that travel has not left behind.
- Poetry & creative work
Wonder…
A brief poem finds beauty and personal discovery in the world that each person sees.
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What It Means to Live
A short meditation asks whether living means accepting experience calmly and without resisting its flow.
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The Blue Damselfly
A small blue damselfly encountered on a shared walk becomes a delicate memory of presence and disappearance.