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In a circle, I’ll come back again, To enjoy the autumn on the land

And set for the new journey;

How about you? Planning?

Each one has his own ship, Own departure time and

Place for the return

 

Bon Voyage!

 

Voyage

 

Ripened leaves are murmuring restlessly

The departure is near

Set sails!

Call the wind!

 

The fallen leaves, suddenly excited,

Become hundreds of thousands of ripples

To push out the ship

 

Toward the Atlantic!

 

The color of the wave is

Changed from ripened to marine blue

The ship advances on the surface of the sphere


 

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The Spiral Ladder 

 

One day

A son was born

His mother was a fertile land, who welcomed everyone

His father was a rain, who gave mercy to everyone

They met each other wherever they went

The father was assimilated into the mother's gracious body

She held him firmly and tenderly

 

One day

A son was born

He was full of curiosity, courageous, and

His eyes were shinning like diamonds;

 

Another day,

 

When the son saw a pitch-black sky

 

Jeweled with tens of thousands of diamonds

He wanted to go up there badly

To look for something to reach there

 

From a hill of the mother's breast

A spiral ladder growing up to the sky

The son climbed up step by step

 

When the son came in the middle

He looked down, far down

The father praised him in showing a glittering ocean

Where dolphins and fishes were jumping

On and off the wave

The mother admired him in blossoming colorful flowers

Growing from green carpet

When he looked back

To face to the pitch-black infinity

He wondered if he could continue this stepping or not

Anxiety

But more than that

Desire for achievement

 

He picked up a piece of diamond closest to him

As his talisman

And put it in his pocket

 

At the top

He breathed a sigh of relief

Here, it is the top of the top of the top

 

For memory

He wanted to leave his name there

Putting his hand in the pocket

He touched a piece of the black

It had been the fraction of diamond

Heated by the stars

To be transformed into the graphite

 

Grasping it

He wrote his name large on the universe

 

Perhaps

Because of the gravity

The name fell to the earth

To be scattered all over the planet

 

Since then

Every time a newborn baby arrives

His/her parents name their baby

With a piece of the name fallen from the sky

Mixed with their unconditional love

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Land of Neon

 

Attention please:

We will be returning to the earth in 0.03 light years

While the ocean wave is calm on the ebb,

Our airplane named AE, the Anonymous Earthbound,

Will depart from the glowing country, the Land of Neon

 

Neon Tetras, the inhabitants,

Had their shapes into various luminous bodies

To welcome the visitors

 

 

The Neonese, how honest they were,

They can not enshrine their emotions

So when they are filled with intensity,

They glow like thunders

And shimmer like Hesperus in gentleness

Another thing about the Neonese…

When they saw their fellows emitting feeble lights,

They gathered around the weakened to infuse bright colors

Light is their life

 

We passengers, the Earthborns who came here secretly

Must return to our country

 

Adieu

 

Through a drizzling misty rain

Four satellites changed their orbits to see us off

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Black Mountain

 

She sighed, deep and long

From her closed eyes

Night dew drops

From her half-opened mouth

“Chi” escaped

 

The time, stuck between evening and night,

She began transforming her body

From innocent golden yellow

To mystic purple

Her soul covered by the mist

Slowly Rose in the sky

 

Do not be afraid of Black MountainThere are no demons, no Satan

 

It’s the mountain of our sadness and anger

They have nowhere to go

People come here to abandon them

Closing my eyes

I can see him

In one thousand years

Proudly standing there against the wind

Who conquered everything

 

I see the moon

I hear a piano sonata

The sphere of the night

completely covers the earth

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Thus, the bird spoke,,,

 

When the bird took a rest

To put down his wing

On the soil

He already ended his life

 

Through thirty thousand years

The most part of his wing

Returned to the land

But the bone was left

Which is bathed

In ephemeral sunlight of

North America

The discovery of the bones

Immediately ran around the world

Famous and non-famous pianists

Offered their compositions

As his requiem

Listening to them

He made a vow:

Be born again, and play

Those beautiful compositions

By himself

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On the way to a temple

 

"If you are tired from walking,

 Take a rest on me."

 

A praying mantis offered her back

Which looked like a long bench

 

 To the temple it was,

 Still quite a long distance and long slope

 Appreciating the mantis for her kind proposal,

 I tried to chat to entertain the green insect

 Starting with reasonable compliments:

 

 "How charming your forever fresh green color is!"


 

"Your eyes are demonic.  I’m sure you never overlook any tiny falsehood!"

The mantis did not tell the reason why she always had to pray.

(…and I did not mention the fact that she often ate her male partner)

  

I borrowed her back to breathe for a while,

Looking up the sky

The autumn wind blew skimming around us

And capriciously dropped, as they danced madly for joy,

one and another

Dazzled leaves already dyed the color of mandala.

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-A being about to collapse under the extreme anxiety?

-Or a human who desperately tried to prove that he surely had lived here just before his death?

The ice age will come again

 

-Are you going to freeze your internal passion?

- Are you going to melt the ice with your passion?

 

The life is short

You

Rise from the ground!

Algonquinosaurs

 

Through an ice age

Now the icebound world was completely

Melted to show the bone structure of

Algonquinosaurs

 

No head

The bone structure is pushed to the ground

By his two skinny legs

 

Who was he?

 

-Was he just a baby who’s about to stand up and to run around the prairie?

 

 

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Oh, God

I watch them tremble in this hopeless struggle

I took a ride on my bike

Holding them on the front basket

 

Pedaled hard, at full speed, so that

All winds will toss them,

Scramble them

Shuffle them

Here, the top of a cliff

This is the farthest I can come

Where the reds slide from my palms

 

At the end of the world

Blown by the last and strongest

Gust of the wind

Each red leaf was then dancing

Down to the deepest blue of the ocean

 

I felt they wanted me to say

Good-bye

Twice Fallen Leaves

 

How many leaves?

Ah, you can’t count because it’s burning hot

 

Vermilion Red Hands

One on top another

Seem to transform into

A perfect synthetic persona

 

Their burning desire is to color

The whole world

With true red

 

Sadly, their nerve fibers

Cannot connect with each other

 

 

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Monkey pendulum

 

The shadow is approaching…

Baby monkey does not seem to notice it

The dark shape is much bigger than him

 

Are the spectators of the monkey park

Nervous watching this chasing drama?

 

“Watch out baby!”

 

They began to throw bananas, apples, and persimmons

Into the orange basket to encourage him

 

“Hang in there, baby!!”


 

The baby monkey sat in the orange basket to get

The delicious food

As we feared, the swing gradually decreased in speed

Less and less

Finally ceased to move

Meanwhile

The shadow was breeding more and more

Eventually

It swallowed the monkey park and the zoo!

 

Look!

Even the spectators fell in sleep, deeply

 

Is it because the night had finally come over or

Because the monkey pendulum became hypnotic?

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Electricity had been unsuccessful

At warming me up

I have a poor circulation

 

If I were a human

I could enjoy a hot spring or bathtub

To warm up the bones

Complaining at the end of life

Does not bring any good

 

Well, why don’t I toast my life

Entirely devoted to toast?

 

Cheers!

Broken Toaster

 

First time in a while

Under the sun

I felt like I’m in sauna

 

Great beads of perspiration

Stand on my body

 

A toaster, it’s me!

Who warmed up everyone’s breads every day

Borrowing electric heat

 

It’s been almost 40 years

Tired and worn out

I am now at my wit’s end

 

 

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A Bridge of Little Tiger

Little Tiger always walked on this bridge very carefully

Toddle toddle toddle

Under the bridge was a puddle made by rain

Puddle puddle puddle

Little Tiger used to stare at himself

In the surface of the water

"Oh, a baby is smiling there!"

The baby tiger who used to puddle

Now hopped on the bridge,

The puddle also grew up from a drop of rain

And eventually became the mighty ocean

A piece of wood the daddy tiger had prepared for the baby

was not enough to reach the other side of the ocean any more

So Little Tiger decided to make a big big bridge by himself and with his friends

to raise trees, and protect the forest

and use them for their construction

One day

When Little Tiger happened to see himself in the water mirror

He was surprised to see a strong Virile and intelligent young man there

But he also saw things that will never changed;

The sun, the forest, and the clouds floating in the sky and on the water

At that moment, he wanted again to hear "Tora chan, our dearest baby!"

Voice of daddy and mommy tigers

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While I am advancing, the jelly like texture cover, surround and stick to me

Floundering, I move my extremities desperately in the sea of jelly

Here whole me set inside of the light ball

taste of honey

smell of flower

At last, I transformed into an embryo

To absorb fully the life one more time

The Wheel of Life

A shadowy full moon appeared in the sky of ennui

This moon needs to be nourished

The umbilical code is the lifeline

Which connects the darkness of mother-body and the fragile sphere in the space There are hundreds of lives squirming in the black earth

I am a tiny trivial one among them

Revealed to touch the sublime being

I stretch my tentacles toward it

To the center

To the center of the luminous body

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Spider Moon

The moon rose

The bright moon does not

let the air exist in its world

Impossible to live there, but

I have been secretly admiring

 The curve and the craters

In which I can hide my treasures

There was, I believe, a man

Who achieved landing on the moon

was slowly moving

his arms and legs

as if he was swimming

To me, who have been looking at the moon

For more than 40 years, already knew of a spider living

Did the first moon walker pull the string?

I was breathing accordance with the sea tide

It was noise of a motorbike

Break the doze

All of a sudden

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Fusion

 

What do you see

In your white breath?

 

I see

Over there

Beyond the foggy white exhalation

Which holds condensation of my privacy

The naked trees are tickling

White membranes of the clouds

Covering the world at this moment

 

Up there

The sun veiled by the white haze

Hesitating if she should show her figure or not

Showers her light

The biggest gift to all

Thus is my white breathe

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Autumn Song

 

One autumnal day

When mist covered everything

The world amplified its mystery;

 

The children of this seductive season

Persimmons, cosmoses, crickets, and wild geese

Shook and blurred their outlines

In the growing complexity;

 

The air grew heavy, soaked with color and sound

The mist dissolved the border between

Cosmoses, the adorable flowers and Cosmos, the universe

 

The echo of change crashed through the air and

I was thrown into total chaos

To survive, I savored the moisture of the mist

And the aromatic scent of burning wisps of straw in the rice field;


Look! The smoke went straight up to the high sky

Look, the smoke went…

Look…

One autumn day I washed my face and body

With the stream of the shining particles of cool moisture

Then the mist caught my naked body

To lay me gently down in the cosmos garden

 

Always with you…

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