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I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.