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January 28, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

In place of my usual weekly essayette and/or poem, I’m sharing links to a short radio interview and a magazine article on my work which were produced last year. I hope you will take a moment to experience (i.e. hear and see) my work through these other media channels. As always, thank you so much for reading!

In September 2021, I was invited to join “Bridges Across World Communities”, a local radio program sponsored by the Nishinomiya City International Association (NIA). Hosts Floyd and Thelma interviewed me about my first self-published book of poetry and photography: Twelve Moons & The Sea ~ A Journey Home. The interview was conducted in two short segments which can be accessed with the links below:

Part One (from 5:10)

Part Two (from 5:07)

In October 2021, my work was also featured in Tokyo Weekender’s series TW Creatives, which highlights “various works by Japan-based writers, photographers, videographers, illustrators and other creatives“. Please check it out below:

TW Creatives: Photo Poetry by Michiru Adrienne

Links to the above radio interview and magazine article can also be found on my new media page on this website:

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Journey

July 2, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Where are you going, little one? Little home-carrying snail crossing my path? If not home itself, what destination or desire guides your way?

We all journey. Life itself, is movement. Unlike the birds, we don’t necessarily have to fly from here to there, but our inner worlds as much as our outer worlds, are never entirely still. And whether we are literal travelers of the world or content to stay put in one place, we all traverse worlds of imagination and experience. What is the world otherwise, anyway—if not for this ongoing interplay between inner worlds of imagination and outer worlds of experience? For essentially, the imaginary and the experienced, are one dance.

Where do you dance? And what music brings you to your feet? What inner fire guides your way?

In the introduction to my recently published collection of poetry and photography, Twelve Moons & The Sea ~ A Journey Home, I describe the nature of journeying, and how each poem is like one step along the path:

Some journeys embarked on in life begin with very clear and intentional destinations or goals, charts plotted out from the very start. Other journeys reveal themselves seemingly on their own accord, with an agenda unbeknownst to the journeyer. It is precisely these most surreptitious of journeys that awaken the soul, heal the heart, and bring the journeyer into entirely new and magical terrain. Upon arrival, one discovers that each moment of the journey itself had always been destination. Likewise, each poem along the journey's path is both point of arrival and of departure, containing its own particular locus of revelation and longing.

How do you give expression to your life’s journey? What is your poetry; what is your dance? Indeed, what is the destination in your heart, awaiting discovery and arrival?

If you are interested in my book, Twelve Moons & The Sea ~ A Journey Home, please check the link below or on the publications page of this website.

Twelve Moons A… A Journey Home By Michiru Adrienne

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