First Love		My Heart Will Wait For You
Haiku One		Haiku Two: To You!
Haiku Two: To You! (revised)		Haiku Three: Keep In Touch
Autumnal Skies		Armageddon
Mitaki Buddhism Temple		My X-Files
Ruriden		Lost In Space
Think On Meditation	.	Pandora's Box
Alien

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We haven�t met for such a long, long time... You have a son now who is indepedant as yourself Yet I still remain the same The same old fellow You once knew, Still trying to ignite that old flame;

When you first walked into our class In seventh grade you introduced yourself to me With just one word and a brilliant smile;

Instantly you took away my breath And captivated me with your style You were my first love, girl; Yet because we were so young then We could not verbalize our feelings You were so lovely, kind and gentle.... The prettiest girl in the entire class, thought I... But I was shy and awkard then And could not verbalize my deep affections for you Then it was much too late When we graduated we went our seperate ways... Miles and obligations drifted us apart And time just slammed the door upon my face... Which led into your heart; Still my mind could not stop thinking of you And I am still longing to see you once again... I wish you can realize how much you mean to me And know the depth of my affection My heart still beats a steady rhythm for you You just cannot imagine The love I feel for you, girl;

I long to see you once again.... I wish to tempt the hands of fate... I wish you can still remember me as I once were... A lad of seventh grade, young and carefree Luckily you are not that far away We called each other on the phone last night And you promised that we would reunite.. If only for a single date. I recognized your sweet voice once more... But can I still recognize your face The same soft expression round your eyes That same giggle that was music to my ears... I wonder if throughout the years You are ageless as the sea of Japan Do you still have that same captivating smile Which bound my soul forever? Still I reminise about those days of yore When you were still a schoolgirl And I a boy in seventh grade Mesmorized by your breathtaking sight... Yes, you are still my first love, girl!

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998

You accepted my invitation and promised me we would meet Yet, God �s will prevented our rendezvou Only He knows the reason why;

After we graduated junior high We went our seperate ways We both lost our connection, after our long goodbye; Yet time could not erase The sweet memory of your face And I often pondered where you�ve been; My heart wishes you a happy life You were a nice school girl ...the President of our class I loved your gentle little ways... The sweetness of your touch and your kindness Throughout puberty I�ve thought of you every single day Yes, I truly loved you in my heart Yet you did not realize my love for you You were busy, I guess, doing the sweet things that you do I remember on a particular sports meeting one Autumn Afternoon How we held hands together As we headed to our playground. The soft touch of your skin Felt like the silkiest glove And you, unbeknownst were so naive You were not aware of my adolecsent love; How pretty you are, gentle Japanese girl! A most intelligent girl at that! Ocassionally you caught my glance Yet shyly averted my advances God! How embarrassing, yet how sweet Those days of yore Seems like a page from history Yet to me it seems like only yesterday Today I wish to rendezvou once more And reminicse about those days gone by I took the risk and called you on the telephone I must have caught you suddenly When you were all alone We spoke of old times and good old times And you promised to meet me on some future date I was incandescent for a moment, Oh sheer delight! Yet fate stepped in, that wicked guy! He robbed my heart again like a thief!

Yet my soul is a surviovor, babe... It seems it wants to persevere I will wait for you, dear At our favorite cafe My heart will sit and wait for you forever!

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998

Open a curtain after slept in Suddenly burst into a room Moment glaring in fall sunlight

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998

In the autumn flower garden A butterfly flying over beautiful blooms your life maybe till tomorrow

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998

Late autumn flower bed A butterfly flying over beautiful blossoms How pity your fragile life

I miss your music diminishing every year for circumstance the singing of insects in the fall

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998

Traditional poem: aki fukasi tonariwa nanio suruhitozo

Translation: Getting deeper autumn season a person living in my next door what kind of person I wonder

Telescope07's version: Late in the autumn Over the seas dear Web friends What are you doing?

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998

Clear night in autumnal sky Full moon, Silver, white.... Glittering Crater is deeper in the shade of light A pockmarked face is beautiful Once rabbit pound steamed rice into cake A fairytale it isn�t anymore Man landed there many times before Man dared to open up that wonderful door To visit and explore the uinverese and new fronteirs Moon is the New World of the next century The moon is an enchanting place... A Star of the first magnitude Jupiter is like a glass bead She has a striped pattern Recognize only four satellites Moving out from my sight Fast spin of the earth I must follow, not to lose her Impossible to see a space shuttle Discovery is circling around the earth Japanese female astronaut She is twice in this space flight With oldest American astronaut They dared go where no man or woman has ever gone before... And viewed the Earth from the telescope of outerspace They say the earth is very beautiful On their return back from outerspace they said everybody can go travel to the universe... Maybe not in my lifetime, but I will see Tonight I spy upon the moon�s silvery beams And dare to dream an impossible dream If Glenn can do this, so can we! For now I just glance here and sip my tea It is impossible to keep away from my telescope, it seems Let us sip a hot tea back to the room And dream of one day reaching that silvery disk in the sky Just like these Courageous men and women of Discovery Who Dared to realize the impossible dream... For now I will contimplate to view in awe This spellbounding wonder of the Autumnal skies And continue to ponder How it feels to reach the stars And view the earth from the telescope of outerspace!

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998

This year is almost gone forever. 1998 is almost over, never to return again There aren�t so many problems in this World today Not so many wars, disease, famine....save for a few ecological problems Peace yes it is peace, the world is at peace now Who said the earth will be destructed completely In the Twenty-First Century the Ultimate battle of mankind would come Some prophets say that Armageddon will come then Nostradamus said fire ball would fall down from the sky In the month of 7 in 1999 In July of 1999 there will be utter chaos and mass destruction... Sleeping phrophet, Edgar Cayce Predicted that Japan will sink under the Atlantic ocean Not until the twenty-first century will this occur And nothing, not even science can stop this divine clock from ticking away One decade ago, Japanese meteorologist has seriously said, Mt. Fuji will erupt in big scale like the eruption of Mount St. Helen�s He pointed out that day ,and became quite famous When that day day came and finally nothing happened And Mount Fuji remained the same... Many groups predict that the world will perish soon God will punish the sinner, That day is coming, "Armegeddon" Pray, repent your evil ways...

Though, can we get away from Armageddon? Should disaster strike us in July of 1999 as Nostradumus has predicted When an enormous meteor does hit planet Earth If I am still alive this time next year Then I will witness this awful tragedy God�s wrath will fill the sky with terror And destroy earth with one cosmic blow That will level all mountains of the world... Mount Fuji will descend upon a water grave... Armageddon is the month of seven in 1999! Nowadays the biggest concern is fixing the year 20000 computer problem... But are we concerned about �Armageddon"?

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998. 11.17

Behind back the cascades as god of nature Trees of autumn fire Framed with yellow and scarlet color Quietness in ginkgoes and maple leaves The sound of a temple bell Echo all around Many statures of ever-changing Buddha in the grove A cinnabar pagoda in the wood shines faintly Walking alone on a stone pavement A few of visitor to a temple Nothing any breeze among the trees A good sound of small stream in the precinct Something had missed my inner part of sense Came out from the bustle of my usual life style Come up with some forgettable things in my part Drop at a teahouse in the grounds Drinking a cup of amazake in a countrified fashion Looking down the pond by the store Decade carp stay put under the clear water Quiet as like enter into hibernation Going away from this tranquil temple Forgetting in a moment time To return back to a noisy place

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998

My mother had said to us as soon as we returned, "She died early in the morning" She is a middle-aged lady who lived in neighborhood She has three sons and one daughter Her husband passed away by atomic bomb So she must have had a tough time making a living. I know she sometimes she borrowed money from my mother... She always relied upon my mother Her son and I were the same age... He and I were playmates in childhood When his mother was dangerously ill My mother paid a sympathy visit in her house After her funeral, my mother recovered her composure And said to us not a falsehood: "When she died I was sleeping Suddenly it has happened, I was bound hand and foot Feeling a tug at my heart strings Simultaneously, I thought about her With sorrow in my heart, I should to help her more Sorry ! Sorry! I muttered again and again For a while, I could not move my body Waking up to check the time clock on the wall I asked her daughter what time she passed away That time was coincidental... She would want to say something to me in last That�s a mystery, but it is true thing" Thus said my mother who was dead a few years ago I was ready for my dear mother�s death She was an old and grew senile My mother expired that day I was sleeping on the bed next morning feeling sorrow for my mother... AS I slumbered... I grew unconscious I could hear some dear breathing next to my ear Suddenly I thought it on my mom�s heart She might have dropped at me Before to go to the land of the dead I felt she was looking down on my face affectionately I realized what was going on: Gradually taking back to the consciousness world Awaking from that in order My mom was going away After that day I never have under my belt such a thing Are these things only an optical illusion? Anyhow I will put in my X-file

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998

Coffee shop ruriden In downtown Many shops and restaurants Many bars in the night town One section in the street Rather wide space of shop On the day off Sure I drop at this house Order a cup of coffee Pick up the newspapers from a shelf Seat myself on my usual table Reading a newspaper Listen to soft music Aired by cable broad-casting Sipping a coffee With more a sweet cake I'm not a sweet tooth Taking sugar is not good health Christmas tree decoration And Santa Claus doll Ornamented with flowers

Why should I come to Ruriden? For relaxation of free time Behind the counter She is working like a beaver To make a tea or cake Dishing wash or cleaning Accepting order from customers Having served some exquisite menu She must be a young girl Not so tall, not so attractive Knowing me as a regular visitor Gives me a kind smile Without my knowledge I got to like her amiable manner In my youth, I used to be attracted by beautiful girl I didn�t know such kind of beauty so far Never could be changed to love from like So to speak, she is like my daughter We have a high age gaps Paying the cash at the register She fronted with me When she went to pay I intended to touch her palm She did not shy away Say thank you with a smile upon her face Getting out with my happy feeling I will be coming next day off too To Ruriden

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998

You promised to meet with me in town Though you cruelly changed your mind... Twice it was happened Then I called you once again to ask you �why�? Oops! Her husband picked up the phone "Who are you?" I must answer my name! "Come to the point" I must reply that. "My wife is not here. You are too persistent. We have a family. Do not call to my family any more from now on!" "Yes I got it" I must answer Telephone was slammed the receiver down After all, she rejected to me through her husband She did not want to meet with me It means I feel some dear feeling with her Though she could not meet with me after over the 3 decade I suppose that she was disheartened by manhood ages I am a male, but she is a female Such emotion might be different This my proposition is one way trip from first time I have to keep in mind the school-age image of my first love... My acquaintance who met her said to me "Let her image of that tender age remain with you forever... You do not have to meet her" I may have not any chance to meet her I have a space in my heart for you I hope not lost in space

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998.12.20

Buddha did meditation To take a spiritual awakening In his way of effort Be obsessed by evil sprit For some times

Once I tried a kind of meditation To ask for spiritual uplift Sitting straight and in a cross-legged position Joining my hands in prayer of my brow Closed eyes and do not move of my body Come to nothing state of my mind

Like that position is not long continued My legs grew numb Non-thinking means vacant mind Maybe it is not a good effect for my brain cell Some malevolent sprit may invade my body Such dangerous point has on meditation

Buddha was spiritually enlightened Not a meditation but a woman�s milk He became emaciated for long meditation A woman took pity so she gave him a cup of milk This was a good opportunity to take an enlightenment It can�t say exactly about that BC 400~500 years

I stopped to do such a thing Going on to space out of my mind for rather long time It is not good for my thinking faculty I thought it hard to make a calculation The present day is busy enough I have no time to do a meditation

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1999.1.3

Mankind opened the Pandora box It was opened fairly early on by humanity... Still Mankind do not reach how to manage it Mankind is not mature in a mental condition yet A bomb came to Hiroshima in August 6th, 1945 Drop a bomb, little boy, with a parachute It was down over 580 meters in the center of the city In a moment, a blinding flash never experienced so far in AM 8:15 Go with explosion huge fire ball with a diameter 280 m. That surface temperature up to 7,200 degrees Fahrenheit Creatures and buildings within 500 m radius was total destruction Blazing explosion destroyed the house and killed the human being Within a radius of 3 km was damaged and set on fire The fire spreads over the city and burned down everything (Black rain which is known with radioactive was falling down Pandemonium reigned in the town after dropping A-bomb People 200,000 out of 350,000 was died in Hiroshima city A functioning of the city was erased out of only one bomb Little boy has a length of 3 m, an axial diameter of 76 cm and weight 4 ton At last mankind opened the pandora box It wrecked havoc on our future: Performance is rather up grade and miniaturization The explosion power is far bigger than Hiroshima type The world has about 36,000 nuclear bombs own to nuclear proliferation Some nations are developing a nuclear weapon to keep eagerly If it hold this weapon, to which a terrorist organization or a terrorist nationality The world will be terror-panic-stricken at that time The explosion of building once by terrorist doesn�t compare with A-bomb Prevent nuclear weapons and a ban on nuclear tests Such a voice from Hiroshima undershoot the target As a result of mankind opened the Pandora�s Box!

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1998.12.23

He might be an alien All the time he stays in his room He weighs on his mind a trifling matter Do not ramble in the crowded town Like to watch the TV in the home Besides it is animation programs In the day time he is sleeping In the night time he is doing something He does not like to keep company with anybody So never take a job so far and from now Depend upon his parents Parents is a well yet He ignores any advise He hems himself from around the world Not any friends Not contact with another people Not drink not cigar not run after woman Not fight because non relationship

He is not idiot He had a good record in his studies Something changed his mind Something got out of order in his high school ages A kind of mental illness might be He likes to read psychic magazines This is not his intention and not another hobby His life seems meaningless Without a break for ten years

Once I asked him if he has an idea He talked back Nobody does not understand my saying Then I don't talk to anybody Some kind of sprite teases me God is testing something for me Near future comes to an end of the world Many people would be died in that time On that occasion I will be grow up to the god

I blamed his thought He withdrew into his shell There is no help for it For rather long time Passing through his adolescence In spite of his bitter experiences He is keeping on his life style

He might be an alien

Itsuki Hiramatu © Copyright, 1999.1.10