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A feeling of Japan

 







30 Nov 2025


Slow flapping of the wings unfolds elegant shapes

Light feathers lift sure muscles with steady power

Grace and power take flight from water to air

Trail of a wake radiates over the smooth surface

Leaving behind again the silence between words

Fringed by trees that proud stand in a colorful palette

Red, green and yellow leaves arrayed perfectly scattered 

And boughs that bow to the water, try to kiss their shadows

And then some stand shaped like dancing buildings

Twisting trunks that give out flat green layered terraces

And among them is the stone, rough-cut and weather-smoothed

As though cooll-ly impervious to its presence in the scene serene


Wizened sculpted trunks with delicately fringed red leaves

Water bounces happily to settle into calm serene reflecting ponds

Steady gravitas as rock and patterned pebbles hold the mind’s eye

All dotted with bold colors of flowers blue yellow and perfect

That show up surprised and smiling coyly 

As though the adoring eye is new to them.

Swaying and waving to a drifting cloud in the blue sky.


Water, wood, stone - elemental yet sculpted

in this ever-changing, yet, somehow, permanently 

satisfying experience that I have felt in Japan. 


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