Senryū (川柳)

  • leisure weekend…
    out of nothingness
    a headache

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  • tea plantation tour…
    without the guide’s instructions
    tasting the fog

    (more…)

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  • drooping ZZ plant…
    i can’t quite figure out why
    she left me

    (more…)

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  • newspaper-wrapped book
    the old new war
    still on

    (more…)

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  • lost in
    existential thought…
    missing the grifter train

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  • insider trading…
    the meaning of life
    in its purest form

    (more…)

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  • a knock
    on the pressure cooker…
    first lunch guest

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  • a quarter
    of the new year gone
    my young white hairs

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  • tough summer
    retreating into
    the poems in me

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  • (more…)

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  • spring day—
    pollination
    by landmines

    (more…)

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  • the seasons blurred global warring

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  • a mild reaction to poison ivy survivor’s guilt

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  • new world order the irrelevance of decency

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  • (more…)

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  • fresh war children camouflaged in debris

    Notes

    When you read this one-line poem, there are a couple of places where you can pause and split the poem into two images.

    #1

    fresh war / children camouflaged in debris

    Another war. The missiles hitting schools and homes have buried children, dead and alive. They are covered in debris. Camouflaged, hopefully escaping another targetted strike. But this is a land without hope. Another missile would come, the patriots on the other side just making sure they give their all for their country.

    #2

    fresh war children / camouflaged in debris

    Another war. The missiles hitting hospitals have buried pregnant women and newborns, dead and alive.

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    And the fragment camouflaged in debris plays with the fact that the truth is buried.

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  • into the new year
    with flying colors—
    ballistic missiles

    (more…)

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  • overnight bus
    all the trees sticking
    to their roots

    (more…)

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  • ginko
    ballparking
    a kigo

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  • the algorithm
    finally delivers
    snow on Mt. Fuji

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