There’s only one you.
Love yourself and love others.
Live with gratitude.
-Jon Riki Karamatsu, 9/14/2016-
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Haiku #19 – There’s Only One You
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Do you hear my heartbeat?
Do you hear my heartbeat?
Follow it.
It will guide you out of the blackness and into my world.
I’m waiting for you in the green meadows.
I’ll take you to the highest hill.
We can lay on the grass and watch the white clouds float among the pink skies.
When the bright blue raindrops fall onto us, open your mouth and enjoy the sweet taste.
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They Move in Sync to the Thumping of Our Hearts.
We crawl to the edge and peek over.
The dark blue waves far below us,
crashing against the rocky walls of our cliff.
They move in sync to the thumping of our hearts.
This is how I felt when I first met you.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, August 10, 2016 –
This song matches my poem. It’s called “So Good To Me” by Chris Malinchak.
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Ideas Are Like Love
Ideas are like love. When we work on them daily, fruits of joy explode.
-Jon Riki Karamatsu, July 12, 2016-
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What Is, Is.
What is, is.
What will be, will be.
We can’t dwell on what has happened, and worry about what will happen.
If we do, it will depress us, slow us down, and even kill us.
Good things will happen and so will bad things.
We have to appreciate what we have and focus on what we can control.
By accepting what is and what will be, we can keep moving forward.
To help us overcome our hardships, I dedicate this song to you called “Light It Up” by Major Lazer ft. Nyla and Fuse Dog.
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A song that takes us into the worlds where only my characters exist.
When I listen to this song, I can picture us in the worlds where only my characters exist – Walking through a Japanese garden filled with white and pink cherry blossom trees and a trickling stream with a crystal clear waterfall; Dancing to a song on a cliff overlooking the dark blue ocean with two small islands placed in it; Swimming in the warm ocean as the shooting stars streak across the sky; Admiring the snow capped mountains from the white palace’s balcony; and Running and stumbling through the snow past the glowing ice sculptures and into the forest so we can lie on our winter coats to gaze at the stars beyond the evergreen trees.
“Oceans Where Feet May Fail” by Without Words: Synesthesia
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Death has always loved Life.
Death has always loved Life like a boy who knows he can never be with the girl he loves. Rather than being jealous of us for having Life, he wants us to appreciate her.
-Jon Riki Karamatsu, June 30, 2016-
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Death seeks us because it wants us to appreciate Life.
Death will always seek us. It wants us to acknowledge its presence, and even befriend it. Why? Because it wants us to be aware of our mortality to motivate us to appreciate what we have and what we can do now. So when the time comes, though hard as it may be to leave our loved ones, we can embrace death upon our last breath because we had embraced life.
-Jon Riki Karamatsu, June 30, 2016-
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Haiku #17
Haiku #17
Parents killed by war.
Dreams are the child’s only friend.
Flying carpet ride.
-Jon Riki Karamatsu, June 25, 2016-
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Haiku #10
Orange fiery flames.
They rage, anger for anger.
Good becomes evil.
-Jon Riki Karamatsu, June 6, 2016-
Haiku #7
Dreams keep feeding dreams.
We can live what we believe.
Crazy becomes real.
-Jon Riki Karamatsu, June 5, 2016-
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Haiku #6
All my might I try,
but I can’t get there from here.
Reaching for the sky.
-Jon Riki Karamatsu, June 5, 2016-
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Jon Riki Karamatsu – Haiku #1
I’m neither alive.
Nor am I among the dead.
Emptiness is peace.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, 5/20/2016 –
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