pi & anne

In future, I’ll sign my poems with ‘Makoto’.

Masses of water,
falling till it hits
and flows all over,
out of
the body.

—Makoto

Makoto means truth, sincerity, faithfulness, integrity, honesty, reality, devotion.

Just to stay sane,
with warplanes
wounding the ancient sky,
I write
one more tanka.

Not caring about what others think—
that giant cloud
throwing equally giant shadows
at the streets we tourists walk.

There are no reasons
to hold on to tramontane rules . . .
I can stop screaming at me,
“See me”.

Reading, then writing
for the sake of feeling genuinely:
the butterfly
returns.

—Makoto

I’m aligning myself with what I stand for, what I long for. I want to recognise my own shortcomings, and continue to face them so that I never stop learning.

On love:
pick no flowers
from open meadows,
from no one,
not any.

—Makoto