By Mike Turner Kintsugi I don’t remember the first time my heart brokeBut it has been broken many timesAnd put back together, piece by pieceSome of my own effort, some the comfort of othersSilent tears running as moonlit riversIn some ways, the breaks have made my heart more fragileOr perhaps it’s that I’ve become more … Continue reading 5 Poems
Kintsugi and Other Poems
By Paula M. Rodriguez Kintsugi (The Japanese art of gluing broken pottery pieces back together with gold, a process that embraces the beauty of imperfections.) In the old yellowed photograph, I’m posing in a pale sundress by a small table that holds the Satsuma vase gifted to my parents for their wedding. I must be … Continue reading Kintsugi and Other Poems
Kintsugi
By Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra You are wonderfully broken, little pieces held together with thin gold lines, soldering the pain in the places that my words could not reach. I held fast to what we used to be, memories glued with tears, but I could not fix the edges of your hidden darkness. I hope that … Continue reading Kintsugi
Academy of the Heart And Mind 