CONTENTS

About Pattern Poetry

1. Seven Verse Forms
human life
a sunny place (haiku)
white stillness
a winterscape
a bird’s voice (tanka)
Nippon (acrostic)
living (acrostic)
out of the moon in the water
there was a farmer lived in cottage (limerick)
shuttle
seven tears and music (free verse)
the stairs of thinking
a leaflet (sonnet)

2. Words Bloom and Sing
choir
visible music
moon
singing together to produce new light
the melody streaming through the night
I am an eighty-year-old child
stress and unstress
rhyme and rhythm
a cricket’s song
words weep in sympathy
i open a memory window and sing a parody
when music sheds its fire within
memories

 

3. A Way of Cooking Words
the snowman
Science!
heaven’s lamplight
a little spirit in motion
an inspirational shooting star
the creative imagination
the creative staircase
imagination
flowers of memories
a beingscape
the light
spirit gems
a certain poet’s voice

4. Conversation with Silent Voice
icy silence
a pretty little flower
much in little
a small thing is beautiful
duet
a melody of early spring
a skyscape and a waterscape in summer
oneness
selflessness
the voice of silence
audible stars
the evening calm gleams over the lake
two moons

5. Graceful Views Not Visible to the Naked Eye
a peach
an apple
an acorn
writing
reading
philosophy speaks to the world
blossoms in peace
my pleasure sings
a certain poet’s sun
the full moon
frosty night

6. Stopping “Language Leaves” Going Dead
under the heavy snow
message board
human insanity
sadness
unborn dreams
transience
lights and shadows of life
to be aware of thinking
loving
fire and ice
the star and lilies
the blue-resounding sky

7. The Voice of a Rainbow Maker
the voice of a rainbow maker
ascending language’s poetic peaks
a stream of thinking
a path to polish bitter tears into sweet ones

8. Poetry Garden Can Cause the Soul to Burn with Joy
joy keeps away wrinkles
new light
the lovely evening
a star
a treasure of joy
doorplate
a bell of light
green fields
the midday sun
the skinny soul
a picture of the human soul
the human soul speaks
a seed of glee melon
an iridescent light
the inner garden

9. Play of Words・Play of Wit
fusing into one
a flash of mirth
a firework of comic punch
in unison
harmony between seeing and hearing
the eye and the ear work as one
a song from within
the voice from the world of poetic creation
synesthetic imagery
 
10. Seven Lights
the newborn pen
starlight
moonlight
sunlight
rainbow
lamplight
candlelight
the unseen light
seven lights lead the soul to the abode of peace.
trinity

11. An Abode of the Heart
the fire of insanity
a dream tree
frozen music
my evening heart
through the night
all of a sudden
seven fruits of the heart
alphabet tree
home
we are peacemakers
mission in life
a tiny fawn
a stream of “sound and sense”
poems
prayer

12. Creative Freedom
the egg of possibility
the creative soul
the view of  poetic creation
the uncaged bird

13. The Four Seasons in Japan
the seasons
pink air
green melody
yellow song
white music
the suns
two phases of life
a thing of beauty
a flash of creativity
a mosaic of marks
a white world

単語集

解説
「図形詩を世界言語として創出する人」鈴木比佐雄
「眼と耳の戯れ」尾内達也
「図形詩と創造的自由」堀内利美

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