May 28, 2008

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Senryu: "a playful verse (zareku) that comments on human behaviours, virtues and vices, noble and base emotions, thoughts of upper- and lower-class people, and all the other matters that make up this life on earth." - Ogawa Akimichi in Light Verse, Ueda Makoto ed.

May 26, 2008

Sungei Buloh senryu

teeth glinting:
lady at the park cafe
charges me double

Kranji

old barracks
ventilation fan
still turning

Sungei Buloh

camera flash-
the monitor lizard
shifts its weight.