From the Editors Desk, Dec 2012

December 2012

From the Editor’s Desk

A Winter’s Tale of Sorrow

By Susumu Takiguchi at a hermitage in England

in the year 2012

first snow…

visiting me on behalf

of the world

seclusion,

free from tales of woe…but

embraced by nature

solitude…

hell for most, paradise

for me

snowy countryside…

is it less beautiful if

seen alone?

is there

beauty in sadness too

that fills the world?

in every shadow

of beautiful women, cheekbone down

I see sorrow

tristesse…

something we come to learn

and be friends with

joy and sorrow…

not either side of the coin, they

feed each other up

welcome, then,

most welcome, Sorrow, my friend

and come here to my fireplace

from tonight

we will be strange bedfellows…

under the cold moon

winter moon…

looking mouldy ever since

I lost my love

love

embraces sorrow and melts it like

the sun does snow

now thick fog;

I think of the unthinkable,

world without women

at the end of time the world

can exist without men, but not women,

eternal spring…eternal winter

sorrow…

veiled by deep snow, and

Christmas merriment

sorrow, sorrow…our friend;

no need to sweep you under the carpet,

from the New Year