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Song of a Chosen Sunrise
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Hometown:
Auburn, California
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About Me:
Poet, Songwriter, Human Rights activist, Writer.
A keen interest in human rights led to marches with Rev, Martin Luther
King, Bobby Kennedy, and Cesar Chavez at a young age.
Its lasting bond continues to the present in multiple venues
of expression, with poetry always closest to the heart.
Website:
http://www.paulmatsumoto.com
Favorite Poet or Author:
William Carlos Williams, ee cummings, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman,
Edna St. Vincent Millay. T.S. Eliot, W.B.Yeats, Dylan Thomas,
Charles Bukowski, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ezra Pound, Wm Shakespeare.

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Straight to You

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Down the dwindling

spiral of the rabbit hole,

past the spiritual madness

of conspiracies unknown,

past the perfect delusions

of finely manufactured truth,

past the triumphs of bloodthirsty kings

and the ruthless ignorant,

past the whirring… Continue

Posted on February 1, 2009 at 2:00pm —

Paul Matsumoto

Song of a Chosen Sunrise




Your finger presses my lips

presses me beyond the eclipse

of sinking souls of wrecked ships

the sinking souls of wrecked ships


Madness pursues my indecision

mind ruined by its revisions

victim of its lack of vision

victim of its own imprecision… Continue

Posted on January 18, 2009 at 4:30pm —

Paul Matsumoto

Has Anybody Seen My Good Friend Isaac?


(Isaac and friends around the piano at one of many of our famous
open-all-the-doors Christmas parties he helped make more festive
entertaining and having fun with the hundreds of kids and friends
and families in Memphis).


I have to say I haven't found a way to say goodbye to my good… Continue

Posted on January 16, 2009 at 9:30pm —

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