(2013)
A tanka written on how friendships can spring up almost anywhere if you give them the chance.
Self-expressional Crooked poster on the wall Self-intentional Will you shatter, will you fall? Who will fix your frame of old?
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
The end of the road A distance we all travel Darkness as moonlight Spreads over stone and flowers That litter our path ahead
Is there something dark? Dark, dark, deep down inside me Something that keeps me Away from the center ring A divergent path indeed
The spotlight glares down Bright, bright, sight, sight My cloak swiftly surrounds White, White, Swish, Swish, The fabric shell billows but stays
To hide in plain sight Something we all yearn for, but Our differences Do not belong in the mud For mud cannot be polished
My White Cloak Part one: Place Entering day by day (1) Into a place to grow and stay Into the foundational walls of old
I pray for the day When my mind is clear Silence, sweet silence Schemes and impulses forgone To live without a shadow
Such sweet aroma Breathe in the color deeply Exhale precious wafts Crisp Citric spiral peelings, Fill my compost disposal
The mind of a girl That swirling vertex of bright Is unreachable So we put up these steel walls When we could have built a bridge!
Just for a moment To glimpse from dusty pages A single white flash Tenuous seconds follow Until a roaring reply
Seasonal ill’n Ado, ado, soft achoos Cool wind seeps through me
Tonight I awoke to an orange hori… one that I had never greeted befor… It took me back, to the days of ce… and disregard for the ticking of c… Part two:
The darkest of nights It is on these nights I turn To these keys, clicking Fervently beyond reason Behind safely shadowed doors
Words without meaning An open mouth seems empty Trying to express Something that dances lightly Forefront of a clouded heart