CHEERFUL NOISE as in a poem

Today's poem Sharon Olds is called a confessional poet. When I first encountered her poems in the 2014 ARVON workshop, I soon recalled a Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai. I think that there are common points between Sharon Olds and Osamu Dazai. (Note) Osamu Dazai, refer to  https://bit.ly/34UzqQ9  (Japanese) and  https://bit.ly/3acfsRK  (English) Still Life by Sharon Olds At moments almost thinking of her, I was moving through the still life show while my mother had her stroke. She was teaching someone, three times zones away, to peel and slice a banana, in the one correct way, and I was with the little leeks, near the sweated egg, near the newts quick and the newts gone over on their backs. An orange trailed from its shoulders the stole of its rind, the father from the tree the more thinged and dried, the wasp was done with one sable guard-hair in oil that had ground gold in it. She had alerted me, from the start, to objects, she'd cried out, i...

Today's Poem Bees by Carol Ann Duffy Here are my bees, brazen, blurs on paper, besotted; buzzwords, dancing their flawless, airy maps. Been deep, my poet bees, in the parts of flowers, in daffodil, thistle, rose, even the golden lotus; so glide, gilded, glad, golden, thus - wise - and know of us: how your scent pervades my shadowed, busy heart, and honey is art. from  https://bit.ly/2wisCP8 (A spring scene - beehives in Japan)

Today's poem Really delighted that my poem  APRIL 2ND-3RD  was published in an online archive of diary entries by Asian artists and writers, recording our lives from March to April 2020.  Much thanks to a writer & poet    Nina .  Here is my poem: https://bittermelon.weebly.com/stay-home-diary/2-april-2020-hideko-sueoka

Today's poem Exceedingly thrilled that my poem A Spring Odyssey  was published in an online magazine harana poetry. Thank you so much to poets & editors, Kostya and Romalyn. Here is my poem: https://www.haranapoetry.com/iv20-a-spring-odyssey-by-hideko-sue