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MARITAL TENSION: A HAIKU SEQUENCE Years of home in three suitcases: deep breathing With his crying baby he moves in the train's passage: marital tension Smoking woman under a naked tree: moon garden Seeking smell in the cherries yet to blossom Travelling home through the crisscross of railway line Night's passage on the beach with her- silky sting A yellow snake slithers on the grass-- dewy trail of love Digging deep the gulf he can't cross, now condemns the elements Orange streak through the clouds-- seat belt fastened White stubble round his august chin-- saturday Fortune melting with change in the wind-- summer end 2.
AGAIN AND AGAIN Again and again I find myself on bed my sacred space but can't relax meditate or dream now fail to have what I always had her naked company with tingling laugh slurred with passion can't celebrate yoni deep into silence renewed, released, returning without finality again and again.
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LOVE: A TANKA SEQUENCE His message to meet at moonrise among flowers sparkles a secret on her smiling face passion glows with charming fervour She is no moon yet she drifts like the moon, takes care of him from the sky-- meets him for a short, waxing leaves him for a long, waning Before going to bed she looks too sad to have any sweet dream: the lonely lamp glints no love and no star peeks through the curtains Yearning to meet him she turns a silk-worm spinning love-silk in cold night-- stands in a shade melting ears like a candle, drop by drop Stains of dried dewy tears on the eyelids tell of the load on her mind: clothed in spring the willow twigs reveal the changed relation Locked in the shadows of unrolled curtains her love in the lone boudoir: she plays tunes on the guitar flowers fade at the windows She senses all things changing as she passes through the city again: should I leave the old house or lie in the grave before death