My sister and I are Half-Japanese

Our father is Japanese

And our mother is English

We sit on the beach

Near our home

Watching the waves

During the summer months

The tides are very low

And the waves submissive

I suppose that we are waiting

For Hokusai’s GREAT WAVE

But it will never arrive

Here in Kingsdown

Emi had asked me to write a poem

About our dreams

I am no more a poet

Than she is

But I wanted to please her

As she is a gentle creature

This poem has made her very happy

Although she questions the title

And wonders why I did not call the poem

HOKUSAI’S GREAT WAVE