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Laura Sabia wrote a new post, I’ve mastered “Kōgō”… but what’s all this about “kizoku”? Seeking Bodhisattva status., on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 1 week ago
I was taking a walk late Sunday afternoon when, turning a corner, I was surprised as the new spring sun hit my face and I could feel its warmth on my cheeks.I emerge
The sun strikes my face. Heat-
I […]
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Laura Sabia commented on the post, Week 6:The Order of Here and Now, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I really enjoyed reading your poem. Poetry about light and its reflection, angles, tints…has always been a favorite of mine. I think it can offer its readers a lot of insight into and information about the […]
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Laura Sabia commented on the post, Hedonism, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 3 weeks ago
I like the idea you raise that the hedonistic way of life doesn’t need to be judged valid or right or even need to have a point. The ephemerality of life and the resignation to this truth justifies the […]
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Laura Sabia wrote a new post, Letting go for a while… “Ukiyo-madness”? , on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 3 weeks ago
By Laura SabiaI was walking quickly down Newbury Street trying to escape the bite of the freezing rain when, out of the very corner of my eye, I noticed the first tiny green buds peaking through the soil of a […]
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Laura Sabia commented on the post, Mu, Suchness, Understanding, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Your poem is absolutely lovely, but I’m wondering whether it may give a little too much description rather than allowing us to come to the sensation you are trying to describe to us on our own. You also use […]
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Laura Sabia wrote a new post, My Airborne Enlightenment , on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 2 months, 4 weeks ago
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Laura Sabia wrote a new post, My little naked tree… among other things., on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 1 week ago
By Laura SabiaAs I was walking home from Davis Square in the early afternoon, I looked up to notice the bare branches of a tree a few feet in front of me.
Enlightenment-
Beneath the sloping tree
Snow […]
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Laura Sabia wrote a new post, Floating around in a world of burning houses? LEAVE NOW!, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 1 week ago
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Laura Sabia commented on the post, The house, the house, the house is on fire, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 1 week ago
I really enjoyed reading your poem. It’s one of the only one’s I’ve read thus far that paints a stark (and also jarring) image in my mind of the scene it’s describing. The juxtaposition of ‘an old friend’ with the […]
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Laura Sabia commented on the post, Winter and Dreaming, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I like the point you raise about the apparent contradiction inherent in the Japanese interest in dreaming as a response to evanescence. The idea of dreaming naturally evokes a sense of otherworldliness. While […]
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Laura Sabia commented on the post, Quiet, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I like that idea of form as counterbalance to evanescence. I thought the nature of the relationship between these two cultural elements to be more along the lines of this: form is used as a means of comprehending […]
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Laura Sabia wrote a new post, My Introduction to Evanescence and Form: A Paradox Extraordinaire…, on the site Japanese 061: Introduction to Japanese Culture 3 months, 3 weeks ago
By Laura SabiaUnable to sleep, I waited alone through the first hours of the morning in the guest bedroom of my friend’s house in New Jersey.
I lie awake-
New day’s first light
Breaks through my […]
