Paints of summer dwell in petals of spring.

Soaring cherry blossoms

seem to be crying

because vehement heat

is about to burn them away.

Dear spring,

I’m sorry I can’t stop waves of summer

but I can carve you in me.

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Yuu Ikeda is a Japan based poet.

She writes poetry on her website.

https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/

Her published poems can be found

in <Nymphs>,

<Selcouth Station Press>,

<Remington Review>,

and more.

Her poetry collection

“The Palette of Words”

has been published

from Lighted Lake Press.

Her Instagram :

@yuunnnn77

A poet is singing the hopeless song

to attract someone who loves her.

The despairing song consists of

phantasmal love, intense cravings,

and empty dawn.

A poet can’t stop singing the hopeless song

because she believes that someone loves her.

---

Yuu Ikeda is a Japan based poet.

She writes poetry on her website.

https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/

Her published poems can be found

in <Nymphs>,

<Selcouth Station Press>,

<Remington Review>,

and more.

Her poetry collection

“The Palette of Words”

has been published

from Lighted Lake Press.

Her Instagram :

@yuunnnn77

Stars pretend to illuminate my notebook.

But what they are doing

is to leak to the moon

about me writing about dawn

that never comes to me.

They ridicule me.

The moon yawns on me.

---

Yuu Ikeda is a Japan based poet.

She writes poetry on her website.

https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/

Her published poems can be found

in <Nymphs>,

<Selcouth Station Press>,

<Sublunary Review>,

<Remington Review>,

<Sad Girl Review>,

and more.

Her Instagram : @yuunnnn77

The snow moon

celebrates me

because I gave up on

a new season

and decided to continue

writing about winter.

The full moon in February

emits a ray of light

to let winter flowers bloom

on me.

---

Yuu Ikeda is a Japan based poet.

She writes poetry on her website.

https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/

Her published poems can be found

in <Nymphs>,

<Selcouth Station Press>,

<Sublunary Review>,

<Remington Review>,

<Sad Girl Review>,

and more.

Her Instagram : @yuunnnn77

Life without any goals
is a drug
that anesthetizes normality
and plants madness.

I’m full of thorns of vanity
and ivies of death
made by the life.

---

Yuu Ikeda is a Japan based poet.

She writes poetry on her website.

https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/

Her published poems can be found

in <Nymphs>,

<Selcouth Station Press>,

<Sublunary Review>,

<Remington Review>,

<Sad Girl Review>,

and more.

Her Instagram : @yuunnnn77