Every year, I write a tanabata poem for July 7th… From this sidethe chasm feels infinite The images I conjureare weak, almost transparentworn through Those streaksare tears in the canvasfor the stars to fall into They crowd along the edgeswaitingto dive in I want to makea last-gasp, desperate attemptto reach you But for all I [...]
Every year for the last few years, I have written a poem to mark Tanabata. Here is this year’s installment. As we remain here, locked away we look for signs in hopes that the stars will align bringing us together this day — In my mind’s eye I see her looking back at me one [...]
Posting my annual Tanabata (七夕) poem a few hours early (though it is already the 7th in Japan)… Can we still meet on a night with no stars? The wish tree is empty my wishes still locked inside the pen refuses to travel across the paper Distance feels endless I can hold this place for [...]
My Tanabata poem for this year… I have a wish deep within I tie it to the branch to take root in the soil to watch it grow reach far and wide make dreams come true hearts fill and burst open become the love I thought I’d lost the happiness waiting patiently to be found [...]
July 7th is Tanabata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata). I wrote this poem with that in mind. We are heavens apart on this sunny day each alone in sanctuary learning a brand new way Perhaps tonight the stars will align you'll find your way; I'll find mine Seven is the count of both month and day a bridge of [...]
