Poetry My favourite photo on the wall
My favourite photo on the wall
which makes me smile every time I look up at it,
where we never get old anymore.
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Poetry
Poetry 
Poetry A night in “Insomnia”
If cannot sleep,
Go to "insomnia"
which is in the middle of the slope.
He will ask,
What do you wanna drink?
I will...
Haiku A winter draft – a Haiku
A winter draft
Shakes window glasses
Shining snow
すきま風 ゆらして鳴る戸 雪あかり
Tanka insomnia snow不眠の雪 – a Tanka Poem
silent night
counting my solitude
quiet and busy
over the windowsill
piling up insomnia snow
しんしんと 更ける夜半に 目を覚...
Poetry A library
a pond of imagination
the silence of paging
the smell of ink.
Poetry A body in the well
I looked down in the well
Where I cannot see the bottom
Where you are sleeping
Haiku the Essence of Haiku poetry and my favourite Japanese Haiku poems
I love writing Haiku poetry in English, though I had never tried to write Haiku poems in Japanese before. Since I got an...
Poetry A Voice – a poem
I cannot hear your voice
who is sleeping at the bottom of the water
as calmly as the breaths of jasmine
I'm like a ...
Essay Writing poems may be a good approach when you start creative writing in a non-native language.
I have been writing in English, which is my second language, since the end of 2018. I first started blogging, but what I...
Poetry You can’t sing
You can't hear
because you close your ears
the voice is floating in the air
even the music is released, already
Yo...
Poetry A Looming City
I was waiting for a bus
and it happened
Prose A Button Snow
The light powdery snow which started falling down when I left home, had turned into wet flaky snow when I came out f...
Essay When a poet gets transformed into a beast
This is one of my favourite fiction stories written in Japanese; ‘The Moon over the Mountain’ (Japanese title: 山月記Sanget...
Poetry Once, I wanted to be a weaver
Once, I wanted to be a weaver.
A weaver weaves their time,
between warp and woof,
spins the thread, dyes it t...
Blog Can Poets survive on Medium?
Medium changed their system for calculating writer-earnings on 28th Oct. 2019, and the new system doesn't seem to work v...
Haiku Fireplace #1 暖炉の火— a Haiku
red flame
never shapes the same
ungrabbable
暖炉の火
同じ姿は
二度となく
Poetry Where is My Creativity Coming From?
Every day, every week, every month,
Plenty of things come and go, passing me by.
The sight I see, the sound I hear...
Prose Blue Stories
“C’était bleu. Complètement bleu.” said the French guy, after he had swum with the dolphins.
As soon as he had seen a b...