“air raids night after night”
clear stars
in the cold night
after the planes roar
Hideno Ishibashi
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Beyond you
By some good distance
Distant from you
By some good fortune
We only go
Where the given takes us
We only take
The gifts of good which forsake us
Beyond, and also before
By any kind of measure
Before? Don’t even go there
Happy for love, which toils with leisure
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the war—
yet
these little birds
Yves Gerbal
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Nothing is over
Flight, or fight, or freeze
Not anything
Ever to be worn or woven
With baubles or bubbles or breeze
That the whole thing
Needs to be gone over
With the detail, of a treatise
Yes, to become beholden
Of all of that which we desire to seize
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Derelict with eyes
I settle in a quiet
Carnival of waves
Sonia Sanchez
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Always
That pure beauty
With such
A smile
Of welcome
— come close
See me, feel me
As I want you
Always to see me
Always to feel me
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the vast night—
now nothing less
but the fragrance
Jorge Luis Borges
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Indeed
Our last night
Vast
Does not go anywhere close
The perfumes
Abandoned intensity
Dwarfs
All other thoughts
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in the dark
where you undress
a blooming iris
Nobuko Katsura
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You
Slip off
Your slip
I
Climb
Into your bed
Together
We turn the potter’s wheel
Towards creation
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shall we die together,
my lover whispers—
evening fireflies
Masajo Suzuki
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Before the death
The living
Empathy
With letters
To and fro
As pen friends
As passengers
Carrying news
Of old places
Of new places
Of the rise
And the fall
Of love’s passions
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Your shadow
on the page
the poem.
Cid Corman
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And then
Mystified
By the coincidence
Of the relevance
Of the sermon
To the situation
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winds of autumn—
water less transparent
than the fins of fish
Takajo Mitsuhashi
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I know nothing
Of the waters
Or the woods
All I can think
Is that a memory
May be triggered
By the sea being in front of you
With the tree strewn mountains
Rising behind you
And the fishermen
Laying their wares on the tables
Beside the harbour walls
Where strong coffee is taken
While smoking roll-your-own cigarettes
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for everyday clothes
an everyday mind—
peach blossoms
Ayoko Hosomi
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It is not every day
That you lose your country
Some folks never do
And I, thankfully, am one of them
But others can go no further
Than seeing the blossom leaves
Fall from the trees
Onto the gravel path below
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Summer night:
in my eyes starlight
hundreds of years old
George Swede
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Northern lights
Streets of Scandinavia
Plains of distant love
In this
The city of storytellers
Parliament buildings
Provide early morning shade
For the salmon fishermen
Whose rods rest ready
Over the clear, ice-cold, water
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dusting off
his father’s sheet music—
spring moon
Kris Moon Kondo
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Dust behind the door
Dust from the earthquake’s roar
Dust beneath the floorboards
Dust to show you know the score
Dust inside the troubled soul
Dust from the freeway’s fall
Dust under the shadow
Dust to realign the call
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Jasmine
white,
just white,
opening to white space.
Javier Sologuren
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Inhibited
By Jasmine
Inhabited
By Jasmine
Instead I walk
Instead I help
Instead…
That’s as far as it goes
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no sake—
I gaze deeply
at the moon
Santoka Taneda
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No change of mood
Is gifted by artificial flowers
Only freesias
Are for the one way of the one love
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in Buddha believe:
wheat shaft’s
green truth
Seisensui Ogiwara
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So we come to the big one
Yet not quite yet
For evasion immediately
Empties its pockets onto the floor
That we might trip up
Or hiccup
Or procrastinate
Or hesitate
But no
A statement is called for
It is not enough
To say that you are unsure
What truth is
Even if that is your truth
Even if that is your truth
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beautiful lines
of green run through
the summer dishes
Tatsuko Hoshino
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Yes, beauty
Those beautiful lines
From side to side
From shore to shore
They explain
The coast, the waves
The distant view
Filled with desires
Alive with hopes
I pause, to ensure
That I am aware
Of all what the artist felt
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cherry tree watchmen
with their white heads
together
Kyorai Mukai
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The Acer
Is yet to be planted out
A birthday gift
It will have pride of place
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full moon—
shadows of pines
on the straw mats
Kikaku Takarai
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One tea ceremony
Just one
In this one lifetime
A ceremony
To share
With this one other
Away from the trees
Out of the woods
On the desert plains
Where the mysteries
Of the day
Are to be buried deep in sand
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winter gusts—
abortion herb has boiled
and yet…
Sojo Hino
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She said
She could not bear
To bear him another son
Yet the man
Or the men
They could not change
However much they climbed
The hierarchy ladder
Of life
Other than to choose
To die alone
If choice he so had
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winter morning
without leaf or flower
the shape of the tree
L.A. Davidson
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September Sunday
Sheep in the field
Drizzle in the air
Quiet
Except for breakfast
First, on the stove
Then, at the table
Rabbits on the lawn
Poems in the book
Life is even
If not yet crisp
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terminally ill—
and her nails beautiful
by the wooden heater
Dakotsu Iida
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Don’t go there
Not yet
Not for a good while yet
Don’t even think about it
Not now
Not even in the near future
It is too much to contemplate
A step too far
However small the steps you take
Think instead of the lightness
Of the temptations
Of the early, explorative years
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first crickets—
the pulse
in my wrist
Adele Kenny
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One part of my body
Pulses
Yet seems separated
Another part of my body
Throbs
Yet appears disenfranchised
A third part of my body
Desires relief
Yet is unable to move
And so it goes on
To so so many body parts
Where to function is not to function
But both my wrists, thankfully
Are in fine fettle
As are my hands and fingers
So
Long may the writing continue
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