Toyoko Beth Oku Hara's Poetry Corner




Reunion in Izu


Misty tints of pink
welcome us in the cloudy weather
of early blossom season.



Water falling from a criff,
a stream running between rocks,
thousands of plum trees in the slopy grove.
Smells from the food stalls
put visitors in festive-mood
this springlike district.



Evoking nostalgia for childhood
the long yellow line of rape blossoms
sways on the riverside.
Sea gulls mew like cats,
ripples wash the shore,
a sight-seeing bus drives by.



The dark sea asleep far below our eyes,
the whole city awake in twinkling light,
our talk thriving into midnight.
Mountanious landscape one side,
ocean view the other side,
the train jolting on a single track.



The dried brown hill rises
with a silent crater in the center.
Behind,Mt. Fuji.
The ancient Western clocks
with full imagination of their journey
displayed here in the Museum.



Outside the vehicle
my eyes attracted now and then,
"Look,cherry blossoms!"resounding.

March 7,1998 at Izu Peninsula



A New Field


A lost child I am
in the world of poetry,


Charming,friendly,and approachable
the world looked to me at first.
Hard,new,and remote in practice.

Almost drawn I feel
in the sea of words
in reading any poem.
Thirsty for water in the desert
in writing a piece.



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