Three Poems by Yuu Ikeda

The Veil of The Half Moon 

 

The half-moon is cocooned

in the veil of the misty light.

The veil is his own.

The veil is the symbol of his loneliness.

He never notices that

I'm gazing at him.

He never notices that

I'm also in loneliness.

Under the misty light,

I imagine his loneliness.

Being cocooned in his own misty veil,

he is going to the navy-blue horizon. 

 

 

Because She Believes The Sun 

 

The girl can make cherry blossoms bloom

in a cocoon of winter intense coldness.

The girl can change

abandoned cigarettes' butts at the side of a road

into rings of obsidian.

The girl can draw the morning glow

instead of tears

on her favorite notebook.

If 

 

I wish that

the moon illuminated only me.

If so,

I never have fears of night.

I wish that

the sun burns only humans covered with malice.

If so,

I never have fears of morning.

Yuu Ikeda (she/they) is a Japan based poet and writer. She loves mystery novels, western art, sugary coffee, and japanese animation “呪術廻戦 (Jujutsu Kaisen)” and “ブルーロック (Blue Lock)”.

Her favorite novelists are Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, J.D. Robb, Jeffery Deaver, Nele Neuhaus, Peter Swanson.

She writes poetry on her website. https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/

She is the author of poetry collections ;

“The Palette of Words”,

“Seasons Echoing Around Me”,

“Phantasmal Flowers in The Eden Where Only I Know”,

“Her Favorite Broken Glass”

and more.

One of her big dreams is to write while traveling around the world.

Her Twitter and Instagram :

@yuunnnn77