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You Were There, and other poems - 4. How foolish

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Poem No. 8

 

Where in the real world I see

could I find a boy as lovely as you

through sighs and sighs

this life I’ll miss

not have lived it with you.

 

There is too much love in action

and too little action in love

for me to know the cure of living.

 


Poem No. 9

 

Tanka:

 

Like child from playground

is the way I leave Japan,

not thinking at all

of me as one of many,

but others will come to play.

 

 

Poem No. 10

 

How foolish.

My hands worked covertly,

While my eyes never left

My drinking companion’s focus;

But my hands worked.

They wrote my phone number;

They printed my first name

Carefully so he could read it.

How foolish.

 

 

 

 

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ReaderPaul

Fascinating.  Obviously more going on that we are told in these brief but intriguing lines.

Multiple scenes are evoked in my mind as I read the lines.

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20 minutes ago, ReaderPaul said:

Fascinating.  Obviously more going on that we are told in these brief but intriguing lines.

Multiple scenes are evoked in my mind as I read the lines.

Thanks, ReaderPaul. Poem No. 9 marks my leaving of Japan in 1995. I had lived and worked there for four years. This rest of this book will contain poems written up to 1999

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Parker Owens

Number 8 entranced me. I can only wish I had been as fortunate as the one for whom you wrote this excellent poem. 
 

Number 9 represents a marvelous farewell to a place near and dear to you. 
 

Number 10 makes me  color as I recall my own infatuations. 
 

Thank you for all three of these! 

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