My Dear Readers:
Today is April Fool's Day, an annual celebration in North America and some European countries by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. As a practitioner of Japanese short form poetry, I would like to "make it new" (Ezra Pound's modernist maxim,'Canto LIII') by sharing a set of selected senry (comic haiku) used to expose human folly and to find means of making sense.
Today is April Fool's Day, an annual celebration in North America and some European countries by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. As a practitioner of Japanese short form poetry, I would like to "make it new" (Ezra Pound's modernist maxim,'Canto LIII') by sharing a set of selected senry (comic haiku) used to expose human folly and to find means of making sense.
Selected Senryu:
morning commute
bumper to bumper
for lattes
Rob Grotke
retirement day --
my plastic I.D.
snaps in half
Ruth Holzer
support group ...
the comfort of the chair
between us
Julie Warther
frescoed chapel ...
I insert a euro
and then there is light
Scott Mason
sizing me up
the jeweler measures
her ring finger
Tom Painting
wedding day
the time he takes
to knot the tie
Marylyn Appl Walker
phantom pain --
the shape of her
in a stranger
Jayne Mille
passing the cream puffs
the guest of honor full
of herself
Francine Banwarth
philosophy class
I talk myself
into a corner
Tom Painting
you're fired
April fools invading
the white house
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