she walked into the room to rouse him from his sleep nudged and kissed him, got him ready for the trip on the coastal highway

Dedicated to my Dear Wife The cloudy sky’s in white and shad… This early morning, as it waits fo… The sun’s putting on a magical sho… Turning raven clouds to deep indig…

creatures grotesque, marbled wildl… stood on towers, lined up on rooft… of the gothic cathedral; muted sen… to ward off evil, calamities and m… for centuries the stone ogres vict…

Dark clouds weighed down on his S… Rough weather appears to be in sto… The prospects of bright tomorrows… And in the twilight of his life th… Life is so bleak; there is no suns…

Suddenly without warning the storm… Upending all things standing in it… Debris everywhere, the world gone… Houses and trees, no one was spare… Roofs and branches littered fields…

He felt invigorated When the cold air touched his skin Watching the sun rising up Beautiful magical scene He could taste the salty spray

A water droplet on a blade of gras… One dewy dreamlike beautiful morni… But the sun’s rays vaporized it; a… The verdant blade suddenly more da… In the radiant glare of the early…

How can he write of sunny, joyful… When sadness weighs heavily on his… How can he think of uplifting rhym… When they’re several thousand mile… His words are flat; and his lines…

She spoke with the tone of finalit… Her words vicious brutal venomous… So unlike her yet it’s reality That was years ago and they’ve bee… But the dull nagging emptiness sti…

Soon as we woke up, in our balcony Fuji-san majestic in her beauty White-capped; shining in the soft… A timeless wonder crowned with pea… The pink-yellow tinge of the mount…

the crests of the wavelets shimmer in the late afternoon sun momentarily blinding her as she gazed into the horizon the crimson disk

I met a lady once, walking around… Quite upset that she’s going the w… I smiled, said hello, and reassure… “It may take longer, but you’ll ge… ***

You ask me why I love you; here’s… A million reasons echo in my mind But first, you make me happy in my… A joy I sought but never thought… I love our talks be it by phone or…

His tired eyes open slowly In front of him, a goddess! He tries hard to look away But he feels simply pow’rless Her sparkling eyes hypnotic

warm water bubbled up the hot spring; as she minded wet clothes she hung on a string, between two poles wild flowers on her hair;