Antoni Ooto

Wild Strawberries
 
Beijing nights, breezes and bells,
dark sky’s bliss, and the small things;
 
I ask for everything
 
Sometimes I dare to feel empty
Like the wild strawberry’s last sweet taste
Sugar and sorrow
 
Someday the words will lead
The false starts vanish
 
And when that happens
Just listen.

Wabi-Sabi
 
The tree sheds its clothes
feeding the wind,
growing in the moment.
 
Time finds serenities…
the old gifts in wabi-sabi.
 
A traveler
with deep roots,
with imperfections,
newer, older
sways naked,
ever-changing skyward. 
 

Antoni Ooto is a poet and flash fiction writer.  He has been a frequent contributor to Palettes and Quills, and has also been published in An Upstate of Mind, Amethyst Review, and Front Porch Review. He lives and works in upstate New York with his wife, writer/storyteller, Judy DeCroce.