Healing souls, improving dreams, refining thoughts, diluting worries, and drawing new horizons. Kaneko Misuzu's lost poems emerged from the natural empathy she had for all living and non-living creatures that inhabit our universe. Moving, minimalist, universal, her poems express the deepest truths, with supreme simplicity. In her works, Misuzu enumerated people, flowers, animals, and everyday objects that are there among us. Everything that might light the path – sometimes bright, sometimes dark – and always fleeting, that we call, life. She had a short life. Her work was lost in the bombings of Tokyo during World War II. Her poems were completely forgotten for decades, but were rediscovered thanks to detective research. It was the poet Setsuo Yazaki who managed to locate the poetess' elderly brother, who had preserved three of Misuzu's handwritten notebooks. March 2011. The Japanese people need spiritual recovery from the aftermath of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the country. As fate would have it, it was Kenko Misuzu's poems that comforted and moved millions of citizens. It is poetic justice or an artistic miracle that has earned the poet the title of one of Japan's national poets today. Introduction: Silent Poetry