Triolet: True Riches

Wealth is beyond what eyes can seeEven a blind man may strike goldIf you need ask what they could beWealth is beyond what eyes can seeThere is a price, they are not freeBut true riches aren't bought or soldWealth is beyond what eyes can seeEven a blind man may strike gold A Triolet is almost …

Chōka: Love is like the Wind

love is like the winda blind force that stirs the worlddrifting by unseenflowing freely hand to handnever to be heldblowing softly in the earit whispers sweet thingsonly lovers understandat times it is stillwhere days pass without a breathyou are found wantingand with one surprising gustyou are knocked clean off your feet chōka (長歌, "long poem")  …

Touching Words

If we fail to see⠊⠋⠀⠺⠑⠀⠋⠁⠊⠇⠀⠞⠕⠀⠎⠑⠑⠀⠀We are blind⠺⠑⠀⠁⠗⠑⠀⠃⠇⠊⠝⠙⠀⠀By ignorance⠃⠽⠀⠊⠛⠝⠕⠗⠁⠝⠉⠑⠀⠀⠀⠀If we pretend not to see⠊⠋⠀⠺⠑⠀⠏⠗⠑⠞⠑⠝⠙⠀⠝⠕⠞⠀⠞⠕⠀⠎⠑⠑⠀⠀We are blind⠺⠑⠀⠁⠗⠑⠀⠃⠇⠊⠝⠙⠀⠀By choice⠃⠽⠀⠉⠓⠕⠊⠉⠑⠀⠀⠀⠀We need more⠺⠑⠀⠝⠑⠑⠙⠀⠍⠕⠗⠑⠀⠀⠀Than touching words⠞⠓⠁⠝⠀⠞⠕⠥⠉⠓⠊⠝⠛⠀⠺⠕⠗⠙⠎⠀⠀For those who have no choice⠋⠕⠗⠀⠞⠓⠕⠎⠑⠀⠺⠓⠕⠀⠓⠁⠧⠑⠀⠝⠕⠀⠉⠓⠕⠊⠉⠑ World Sight Day Observed annually on the second Thursday of October, is a global event meant to draw attention on blindness and vision impairment.

Will

Let me meditateRuminateFind peace in the rubbleBuried hereIs my willThat lost touchWith the surface Blind without handsTracing soundMislaid willAmbles erraticallyLacking directionBut for momentary pullsOf the heart strings

Known as Sin

A heart may rescind When bloods run thin And steel the tempered trap That settles smouldering within Made blind to follow Streaks of the eternal grin A route without a map To the tempest known as sin