(2013)
A tanka written on how friendships can spring up almost anywhere if you give them the chance.
初めては いつも苦しい 二回には?
Is there something dark? Dark, dark, deep down inside me Something that keeps me Away from the center ring A divergent path indeed
To cover the tears Some men will drown their sorrows Some just run away Some even will board their hearths To me? A path of rom-com
Seasonal ill’n Ado, ado, soft achoos Cool wind seeps through me
I pray for the day When my mind is clear Silence, sweet silence Schemes and impulses forgone To live without a shadow
Just for a moment To glimpse from dusty pages A single white flash Tenuous seconds follow Until a roaring reply
Bickering tree frogs Endless croaking back and forth Dream a soothing song One where two branches can meet In this capital forest
A sudden waking From formless blinking through dre… Please, just one more year! Surprised to glance the moon’s fac… An hour before her phase
Scattering shy leaves Skittering down two by two In Fall’s breeze they sink Forming such a golden path Blind-folded hearts can follow
To hide in plain sight Something we all yearn for, but Our differences Do not belong in the mud For mud cannot be polished
Such sweet aroma Breathe in the color deeply Exhale precious wafts Crisp Citric spiral peelings, Fill my compost disposal
Five points to this as stated thus… Five; to pick up things once falle… Four; to grasp all things from wir… Three; to greet, to cheat, and din… Two; to bind wild lovers with gold…
Words without meaning An open mouth seems empty Trying to express Something that dances lightly Forefront of a clouded heart
Lofting lazily Enter murky depths of feel Quivering eyelids Two heavy from the weight of The thoughts that lead me astray
Once my beating heart Matched steel drum lines to-to-toe Teaching metronomes But now my beat has fallen Into syncopated depths