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mount fuji
he misses japan
truly extraordinary nippon
as if an edenic wanderlust that
turns him on
surely every country
have cultural aspects
and social values
and traditional views
and despite all
that has been said
of cultural variances
don't you ever wonder
why they remain
harmonious—
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The Conqueror
She is the conqueror..
—a girl from the
Spanish conquest
As if dawning like
the sky, —instead of
conquering, she got
conquered
Indeed, ingenue and young,
If only we all knew
Carl Jung
Never faulted in our
fault-finding sphere,
the casuists called
her dear
Fragility of the heart,
too insurmountable
to be broken by concrete blocks
—that some called art
Hell no! (Millennials disagree!)
We are all just suffering
from anomie!
In a Japanese Countryside
I'm in a Japanese
countryside
now,
but with whom?
Quiet community,
revived Western humanity,
that even Mt. Fuji is
tranquil—
That even the train cars on
metal rails in train stations
are silently drifting, giving
way for us—sleeping
in our modest households.
kulturang banyaga
kulturang
banyaga
kulturang
kahanga-hanga
aking natagpuan
sa 'di kalayuan
akin siya,
akin siya!
magpakailanman—
the earnest flower of hinterland
can we escape this
dystopian land?
if only touching hands
would help this dreamland
most of us have planned
for the morrow
though we still misunderstand
the earnest flower of hinterland—
now that—
now that he starts zen,
addicted to heart sutras;
unbelievable—
art and the language
like sake's heaven,
like Du Fu's papers,
Basho's friend have gone—
Moral Intuition of Moral Theorists
Evaluations⸺
going rates, our bravadoes
⸺are objet trouvés
—Like Little Houses
Like little houses—
Are the places within which
—can be called our homes