Bamboo Blades Grass stronger than steel. Grows fast, cuts cloud, slices sun. Kung Fu Panda’s meal. Bamboo is not a tree species. It is grass. This seems illogical as we...
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Drive Less Feel More Embrace the release of your mind from the wheel. Let the tips of your fi ngers touch light and not steel. Watch raindrops power into foil lake and...
An Audience with Fuji San Fuji San chooses. Not you. Oft hidden idol. You must watch, wait, pray. Mount Fuji is more than a mountain. It is a sacred mountain and must be...
A dandelion clock catches my eye. I must have seen a thousand and noticed none. Until now. I stop. Look. Contemplate. How do they tell the time? Watching the dandelion...
Shrine Etiquette (Newly Acquired) Wash, bow, clap twice, wish. Ring the bell and offer thanks watch your worries float. We come across our first shrine en route to the...
BritMums We Are Live Clear your head and catch a breath. We invite you take a single step over the edge of your comfort zone. Relax, we’ll let you keep your phone! But...
The Swimming Pool Blue ripples on sun distort what I once thought as I swim through air. In Kanazawa we are inspired to swim but the pool is full of contradictions. You...
Spirit of Obon Tonight you glow bright. Secure in our thoughts, you drift downstream, to your world. Across many parts of Japan for three days each year families come...
A Dome Annihilated. City reminds us of peace. At epicentre. It’s an eerie feeling, our first night in Hiroshima, under a darkened sky ripped open by lightning in a...
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Kirstie Pelling
Kirstie is the creative force and chief poet in residence of poetinmotion.org She is available for residencies, as a conference poet and wedding poet. She is also co-founder of The Family Adventure Project and a regular contributor to many online travel communities.
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