YUU IKEDA

THE MIDNIGHT SECRET PARADISE

the sound of a clock on my desk
changes into just velvety smoke,
whenever me and a glass of whisky shake our hands.
it always happens at midnight.
it always makes me be free from
every fragments of me.
at 0:00,
the paradise that only i can live in
emerges.

LIGHT HAS NO NIGHT

the morning glow benumbs my craving for midnight.
i’m just floating in the faint light like mist.
where am i going to,
being cocooned in the world where
there is no even fragments of night?
when the sun dominates every space,
where am i,
why am i there?

Yuu Ikeda (she/they) is a Japan based poet and writer.
She loves mystery novels, western art,
sugary coffee, and japanese comic “呪術廻戦 (Jujutsu Kaisen)”.
She writes poetry on her website.
https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/
She is the author of poetry collections ;
“The Palette of Words”,
“Seasons Echoing Around Me”,
“Phantasmal Flowers in The Eden Where Only I Know”,
“A Chain-Smoker at Midnight”, and more.
Her Twitter and Instagram :
@yuunnnn77

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