JapanA Visual PoemBy Shane Coughlan

Japan - A Visual PoemBy Shane Coughlan

First Edition Published in March 2016. Copyright © 2016 by Shane Martin Coughlan

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Dedications

To Svetlana on her birthday

To Gabomi for always inspiring me

To Masayo for always encouraging me

Let me tell you a story

Not about a place

Or a time

But feelings

Glimpses of beauty

Inspiration

Understanding

Framed, interpreted and shared

From one imagination to another

Japan is an idea

An aesthetic thread

That ties generations together

Elegant in simplicity

The appreciation of a moment that passes

I follow these moments

To understand myself

This beautiful land

And everything it means to me

Fin