Reflecting on the Death of Issa’s Daughter

Grief Has the same power as love, Making men drunk on foolishness. Atlanta - February 2016

May I Learn To Love You Like This

Too late I loved Thee, O thou beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! Too late I loved Thee! And behold, Thou wert within and I abroad, And there I searched for Thee; Deformed I, plunging amid those fair forms which Thou hadst made. Thou wert with me but I was not with Thee. Things …

The Art of Utagawa Hiroshige

Been digging on Utagawa Hiroshige since I saw one of his prints hanging on a friends wall, and considering the amount of Japanese and Chinese poetry I have been reading lately I felt instantly drawn to it. Anyway I hope you all enjoy these as much as I did. The first print is the one …

Music is Spiritual

Turn up the volume and let it move over you. Bar Scene Yumeji - In The Mood For Love Awakening Sunshine

Nothing Else

XLIII Two flowers in a letter The moon sinks into the far off hills. Dew drenches the bamboo grass. I wait. Crickets sing all night in the pine tree At midnight the temple bells ring. Wild geese fly overhead. Nothing else. -Marichiko LI Did you take me because you loved me? Did you take me …

Jane’s Shoes

Jane's Shoes my shoes in the closet like forgotten lilies, my shoes alone right now, like dogs walking dead avenues, and I got a letter from a woman in a hospital, love, she says, love but I do not write back, I do not understand myself, she sends me photographs of herself taken in the …

Music That Moves You #5 (Alexandre Desplat – The Painted Veil)

Beautiful music from the movie The Painted Veil. As usual, sit back, relax, and LISTEN TO IT LOUD. Morning Tears - Alexandre Desplat, Lang Lang Gnossiennes No. 1 Lent - Lang Lang The Painted Veil - Alexandre Desplat, Lang Lang