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melt

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all caught up in a rapture, a reverie
in poetic flurry
i fall
like snow, adrift
swirling softly in mid-march cold
and then land
right here
on this plum blossom petals pink
open and full
i melt

Courtesy of Facebook memories, the above poem was brought back to me from three years ago when I was still living in Japan. And there was a much older haiku from some eleven or twelve years ago, also inspired by pink blossoms. Unbeknownst to me, I have been a pink flower poet in the making for much longer than I had realized. I now declare henceforth the promulgation of flowetryโ€”flower poetry. ๐Ÿคญ
Wishing you a happy and flower-full spring! ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ’—๐ŸŒธ

dragon

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did i summon that dragon?
or did it come here
for me
dancing
with its luminous globular
gem?
this crystal
clear
carries my heart
into and across uncharted oceans
of enchantment

Happy Lunar New Year! We have entered the year of the dragon and so here is a poem I wrote over four and a half years ago, titled simply, dragon. Unbeknownst to me then, I was indeed truly entering unchartered oceans of enchantment in ways which were beyond my wildest dreams… beyond even, my own imaginative capacity. So much has transpired in these past four and a half years, and now it is already 2024โ€”the year of the dragon itself. I believe the most magical is still yet to come. Get ready!

Wishing all of you a wonderful and beautiful new year๐Ÿ‰๐Ÿ”ฎ

contentment

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micropoetry for a rainy day

โ€ƒโ€ƒโ€‚ sometimes
we just gotta b r e a t h e
โ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€‚and be
โ€ƒโ€‚okay
โ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒโ€ƒ โ€ƒ withโ€ƒโ€‚ just being.

Yours truly,
Los Angeles

beautiful

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this body
in the soft folds of kimono
also creases
gently
without resistance
to earth and to drifting stars
this body breathing, obi-bound, is a delicate dance
like butterflies in the wind
like waves of the ocean
rising and falling
weaving together all the days and all the nights into one endless strand
step after step
fold after fold
crease after crease
this body is singing
and dreaming
is birthing
anew
worlds of beautiful

again

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empires rise and fall
and the world’s great cities are built to someday crumble back into the earth
as landmasses collide and drift apart
the stars, in brilliant constellations, climb up into the night sky only to disappear again
buried somewhere beneath the horizon of day
and we come and we go, again
and again
and yet
we dance, again
all the while we dance
again
in these eternal arms of love

one thousand years

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one thousand years
in a heartbeat passing by
we dance again

new year aspirations

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i want to fly with wings
like the angels
full of light and love and peace
beautiful
and in the divine wind, dance
like the starlings
precise, purposeful, impeccably wild and free
in spite of all these tears
the hardship and the heartache
in spite of our wars and endless trauma, catastrophe, disaster and destruction
i want to fall
again and again
like the drunken fools
madly in love with this world

in light of the shadows

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while the world carries on
with its wars
waging in the hearts and minds of legions
and for eons
without, seemingly, an end
while the sun toils on and the moon weeps
for all our innocents buried underneath the trees
i want to stay here softly
in the darkness and in the silent night
i want still
in light of the shadows
this dance

fire

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my heart
today
has no words
only fire
in this body burning
sacred
holy
and
divine
โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ

ใ‚ใ‚ŠใŒใจใ†

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  my heart

        today

    has         no      words
             only                                   love
            
                        for you
       for your love
                                     for me

ใ‚ใ‚ŠใŒใจใ† is arigato, “thank you” in Japanese.