The Prudent Sailor: A Sonnet
None but yourself can pave the way for youNone can prepare you for all the tempestsYou must fit your boat--well-angled sail throughUnder fine blue skies and waters freshest If on…
None but yourself can pave the way for youNone can prepare you for all the tempestsYou must fit your boat--well-angled sail throughUnder fine blue skies and waters freshest If on…
The duration doesn’t matter, what matters is that you give your all to friendships—even if today all you have is a hole—such interstices sustain us. Happy friendship month.
Days of gorgeous spring-like skies suddenly got tangled up with winter clouds.(The signs were exciting for me and hubby). Before we knew it, Tokyo and thewider Kanto region was covered in…
Hotel de los corazones rotos–The hotel of broken hearts Hello, my precious Readers. Happy February. Yay! January was not a good month for me--the incidents here in my home countryfelt like…
I'm so glad this book exists. Please give this book your attention. Help it get seen.
Participating in W3 Prompt #90: Wea’ve Written WeeklyPosted on January 17, 2024 by this week's PoW. I. The prompt poem: ‘Summa Theologica, or: Thus Spoke Zarathustra’, a “reverse” poem by…
Small Kindnessesby Danusha Laméris I've been thinking about the way, when you walkdown a crowded aisle, people pull in their legsto let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless…
A Haiga, written for Frank J. Tassone, the top American Haijin at Haikai Poetry Matters Website for haikai challenge II. This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku,…
Hello friends, The Tale Of Genji—have you read it? Why not? Don’t answer that, dear one. But today I want to tell you thatGenji Monogatari by Murasaki Shikibu has me…
Today's post is written for Dora from Dreams from a Pilgrimage for a round of Poetics!Hosting at dVerse, she sets the stage for an interesting challenge: Your challenge for today’s Poetics? Using…
Happy New Year, everyone. Today's post, like recent events that have brought meback to my computer days before I'd intended to return, is written for Kim at dVerse.Thank you, Kim,…