A Friend Arrives (友人が到着)

I was meandering,

through the infinite gardens

on a sunny day.

When who should arrive

as I took my photographs,

minding my business?

Mrs. Butterfly,

with her lazurian wings,

gently shimmering.

She landed near by,

on a stark blooming crimson,

resting from long flight.

We talked for a minute,

for what seemed like and hour.

No speech required.

A slight breeze picked up,

and she subtly explained,

how she must head out.

Her children waiting,

to take them to the flowers,

now that it is Spring.

So I saw her off,

waving as she fluttered by, 

heading to the sun.

I continued on,

strolling through the pleasant scents,

smiling forward.

So Lonely (そう孤独な)

It appears as if,

I live in a lonely world,

all by my lonesome.

Sitting in my room,

writing poetry like this.

Silent company.

I hear the voices,

through the heavy prison door.

Faces never seen.

All that can be done,

wonder if something is wrong.

Are these rumors true?

So what is it then,

that keeps me so far away,

from the rope or knife.

Do I tell myself,

that these things are real or not?

Who is it to say?

Should I contemplate

the lies behind the ending?

Keeping them away.

Alas, it is not so.

These feelings, temporary,

rumors always pass.

Someone is close by,

always there to turn the light,

to be your true friend.

To continue on,

through the dark door of sorrow,

to see the future.

Return from Peaceful Slumber (安眠からの復帰)

Celestialy,

soaring high to clouds above.

Always is the dream.

Friendly eyes greet me,

as I arrive on wings.

Certainly grand!

Seraphims stand guard

holding their sapphire spears,

wearing turquoise robes.

A silver dancer

takes me to my position.

Surrounded by hope.

Venus, Mercury,

names said so casually

in the open ari.

A diamond palace,

atop the heavenly hill,

awaits my return.

But why is it so,

as I near those golden gates,

I simply wake up?

Leaving to wonder,

why it is I have returned,

from peaceful slumber.

Solitary

Such a silent place,

where there is nothing around.

Only lifelessness.

Surrounded by stone.

Sentinels of timelessness,

these rounded markers.

A mist covered field,

full of shadowy figures,

but there is now speech.

Only the silence,

of those long past overdue.

Dreaming forever.

Lie in their caskets.

Time no longer immortal,

so here they stay.

In solitary,

I lay here and understand,

what all of it means.

Dark Reflection (暗い反射)

As I look at me,

in the hanging reflection,

I get so confused.

For I see these things,

that should  not be there at all.

It terrifies me!

These are like the horns,

that I see but do not feel.

So black and fearful.

And the glowing eyes,

evil and red in color,

as they stare on me.

A demon possessed

my mirror, may be the case,

but when, how and why?

Or it may perhaps,

just be the way that I look.

Do others see this?

So what is it that

causes such a disturbance,

in this silver sphere?

Perhaps we should all

look and see what is truly

in that dark mirror.

The Merchant's Egg (マーチャントのたまご)

 This is my personal favorite of the poems I will be posting today, It is so lovely and sad at the same time. Enjoy!

The merchant is here,

selling his wares on the streets,

giving a fair price.

People come afar,

to view his mystical pieces.

Looking and chatter.

His shelves hold clothing,

Persian rugs and Chinese jade,

even crystal balls.

But the favorite,

a gold, jewel encrusted egg,

from frozen monarchs.

Interest from all,

but when someone asks a price,

he simply replies:

"This beautiful one,

is not for sale, a gift for

my only daughter."

More people stopped by,

and they still kept on asking,

and he still replied:

"This beautiful one,

has no price, for it is a

gift for my daughter."

So he sold his wares,

and packed up his caravan.

Heading off for home.

He arrived later,

to a solitary grave,

and what he said was:

"This little one, is

all, only for you, my one,

my only daughter."

Winter (冬)

Winter has come now.

Soft white snow blankets the land,

it's everywhere!

Frost covered mornings,

the cold air is beautiful,

but nips at my nose.

It brings death with it,

leaving only pines and firs.

All others go hide.

But there is still hope,

for the first buds of new Spring,

are on swift horses.

Flowers (花)

Do you know of it?

The things that are so many,

yet are so few?

Knowledge of the sorld,

seen shining in their faces.

Quickly fading by.

Their time is so short,

yet they accomplish so much

with their elegance.

No one shall forget,

How they have delighted them.

Never leaving all.

Delicately with

their smiling, beckoning

with their happy air.

How is it, You Think? (それがどのように、思いますか？)

How is it, you think,

that the wind can blow its course,

to such distant lands?

How is it, you think,

the seas that show their vastness,

can have such power?

How is it, you think,

that the mighty pines and oaks,

can grow to such heights?

How is it, you think,

that the largness of mountains,

can divide nations?

To the many men,

who have such brilliant minds,

How is it, you think?

IT'S BEEN A WHILE! (それは久しぶりです！)

So, sorry it's been more than two months since my last posts, I've just been so busy now that I'm at ART SCHOOL!!! Yeah so I am in art school as a first year student in the Graphic Design major (for now!) My current classes are: Intro to the Arts, English I (Yes there are English classes in art school!), 4D: Time Based Narratives, Graphic Design: Tools, and Drawing I: Real to the Imagined.
I've got a pretty busy schedule and have already had some major projects, so now that I have some free time, I thought I'd update. Over the next hour or so I'll be Posting some new Poetry I wrote recently, not all of them mind you just some of my favorites.
NOTE: I have come up with my own style of poetry! It's what I like to call Lyrical Haiku (Please don't laugh). How you do it is basically write several haikus (Say five) and write them in a style so that they go off each other, making a story, like lyrics to a song, sort of.

Please also note that I don't know when the next time I will be able to post is, so to anyone who actually looks at this blog (Which I doubt there are), I am sorry.

Lapranite Finished (ラプラナイト 終了)

remember the Pokemon sketch that I had done about a week or two ago, well I finished one of them, by finished I mean colored and added a background in Photoshop. The Pokemon is Lapranite, my evolved form of Lapras, it is Water/Steel type. It evolves from Lapras if it is traded while it is holding the Metal Coat.

Bio: Lapranite is a kind and docile creature, it even lets people and other Pokemon ride on it's back to get large across large bodies of water. The armor on its body is stronger than steel and the plates on its fins and tail and razor sharp and slice rocks in half.

Pineapple Blast (パイナップル爆発)

So sorry it's been more than two since a post, this has mostly been due to the fact that on the day after my last post, Pokemon Black & White came out in America (I personally purchased White) and because I haven't really had much to post about recently, but now I am back and hopefully will be posting more often! Again!

This post is going to be pretty short, it is for a contest that I entered on deviantArt.com, the One Cat, One Clock, One Fruit contest by Fotalia. This was by submission for that, Enjoy!

It's kind of scary and funny at the same time! Just in case you couldn't tell, the clock is supposed to be an earring on the cat. Done on Photoshop!



Also, as many of you know, about a week ago, devastating tragedy happened. I am talking about the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that followed. I have heard a lot of bad things from the news (which is another reason why I haven't been on recently). Please support them in anyway possible, whether it be by giving money to the Red Cross, or just simply hoping and praying for the people of Japan (which really won't do much but still in these times we need hope). Also, on the matter of the Nuclear Power Plant situation in Fukushima, I really do not think that it is as bad as the reporters here are making it out to be, obviously it is a problem and the area around the plant probably won't be inhabitable any time soon, but honestly, the thought that nuclear fallout will cover the entire Northern Hemisphere is just preposterous.

Well that's all, for now hopefully I will post something a little latter on today.

Back (戻る)

Well it has been a while, again. Due to internet, family and laziness I was unable to post anything for a while. Hopefully now I will be able to update more frequently.

I have also decided that I am going to use  Japanese on this blog, as it is the closest to by own language, but my language is not supported on Blogger. Future posts will have English and Japanese titles.

Sad news, another one of our pets, Sapphire the Parakeet, died recently. She was fairly old, especially compared to our other parakeets (Who only lasted between 3 and 5 years) she lived to be at least ten years old.

I only have one good picture of her as every time I tried to take a picture of her, she would move. here it is.

For a while she didn't seem to be feeling well, at least to me anyway, no one else thought so. Then a few days before she passed she was acting weird and then about three days ago we found her at the bottom of her cage. We'll all miss her. Rest in piece.

Which One?

So this time, instead of having a black and white photo and a color photo, I have two colored photos. The first is the original while the second's colors have been enhanced:

In my opinion, the second one is better, only because it has much more blue to it, you can never have to much blue! But the first one is good too because it more realistic looking for the area that I live in. What do you think?

Which One?

Yay it's time for another episode of WHICH ONE?!!! So here is the picture, a rose bush, the difference this time is that the black and white version is the original and the colored version is from my own creation. I like the black and white version because of, again, the effect that black and white makes photographs look good and the fact that it is the original. I like the colored version because it is not very realistic and the colors are really nice, but I did mess up on it in a few places (Don't kill me, please). So here they are.

Europe Trip!

I never said anything about this before, but now I think is the time to talk about it. This summer I went on a sort-of school trip to Europe, it was with some of the kids in my Design Class of last year, along with my old Design teacher. We took a plane from LAX to London, then from London to Amsterdam. We stayed Two night in Amsterdam then took a charter bus to Germany and stayed on night in a scary hotel a few miles outside of Heidelberg. Then we drove to Munich and stayed a night there. We then drove though Austria, stopping at the Kristallwelten and then Innsbruck. We did not stay in Austria but instead drove to Venice, Italy. We stayed outside of Venice for two nights and then drove to Switzerland, stopping in Verona. We stayed for two nights in Engleburg in Switzerland and visited Lucerne. We then drove to Dijon France and stayed there one night. After that we went to Paris and were there for two nights, finally we took the Eurostar to London and stayed there for two nights.

In total there were eleven of us in our group, and there were four other groups, one from Austin, Texas, one from Terre Haute, Indiana, and finally from Oh my gosh I can't remember! Anyway, we all became friends adn whatnot. Over all it was fantastic and life changing, I didn't eat a lot though (I'm not really that big of an eater, and there was a lot of weird stuff that I didn't really like, except for the BREAD!) Hopefully I will post all of my wonderful pictures and stuff from the trip soon, there will probably be different posts for each country so look out!

Oh yes and I also finished my first semester of college on Wednesday. I will also be posting my many art projects that I did through out the Fall real soon too, so yeah.

Wonderful News

I have wonderful news! About two weeks ago, my parents went back to the park with my sister and guess what? They found Huck!!! Everyone was so happy to hear that. So we have gone back a couple of times. But when we went a couple days ago he didn't come to us, we are pretty sure we saw him with the duck that he likes to hang out with the other times we went there. So here are some new pictures of him from the second to last time we went.

Which One?

I have this one picture that I really like and generally other people seem to like a lot, too. I have too versions of it, the original color version and a black and white version. My question is, which one is better. On one hand I like black and White photography, but on the other hand I really like the colors of the original, So what do you think?

Kasumii Pokemon Trainer Card

A while ago, I made a set of Pokemon Trainer cards for my family members. I also made one for myself to use for Deviant ID on Deviant Art. I couldn't put it up for a log time because I put my age as 18, but that hasn't been true up until a week ago. So I put it up finally and thought I would put it here as well.

It is mostly blue, the person is the same person from my "Froslass Gijinka" just with changed colors. The Pokemon featured on it are some of my favorites of all time, they include; Lumineon, Dragonair, Kirlia, Sunflora, Vaporeon, and Skitty. Almost all of it except for the pictures of the Pokemon, the Pokemon sprites, and the Badges are original, I made it completely on Paint. I tried to make it with the best Japanese that Google Translate could offer, I also looked at a real Japanese trainer card from one of the games for references.

Here it is:

Tonight's Sunset

The sunset today was pretty. The clouds on the East and the West were very bright pink.

I took quite a few pictures of it, so here are some of them!