Posts tagged ‘Senryu’

Jun 14

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“Why should poetry have to make sense?” —Charlie Chaplin

Senryu 1

Mad lover’s poems
compress a rosy garden
in compost and rain

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

―William Shakespeare

Jun 11

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“Quantum particles: the dreams that stuff is made of.” —Anon

Shrodinger's Fish Tank 1

Maybe life is a long lost friend
The love you live to meet again
Maybe it’s real or just pretend
Maybe it has no separate ends

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

―Albert Einstein

Jun 7

“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”—Drew Carey

Head of human resources
Weaned in a square barred playpen
Bred for the egg-crate rat race
Gleaned the art of sneering then

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

―Robert Frost

May 23

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“Unusual travel directions are dancing lessons from God.”—Kurt Vonnegut

On the rive gauche in French
One is not maladroit
Who hangs left for a stretch
To gain la route à droite
Beside the path

Sometimes people need to take the wrong path in order to lead them to the right one.

―Nashoda Rose

May 18

“At the typewriter you find out who you are.”—Tom Robbins

When Underwood dings
I stop typing till
I’m done sharpening
My Blue Pencil

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

—Mark Twain

May 15

“My life is a mosaic, and there’s no room in between pieces at all.”—Marcia Clark

They meet by serendipity,
in a surreal mirage of tile;
paired and spared for eternity,
to stand on the mosaic mile.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

May 11

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” —Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Shakespeare’s Prince of Denmark tells his scholarly pal, Horatio, of encountering a talking ghost wearing his late father’s armor and crown: an absurdity undreamt in Horatio’s philosophy, with which he is endowed by the enlightened rational faculty of the Bard of Avon.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.

—Ambrose Bierce

May 7

Posts tagged ‘Senryu’

“Why should poetry have to make sense?” —Charlie Chaplin

Mad lover’s poems
compress a rosy garden
in compost and rain

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

―William Shakespeare

“Quantum particles: the dreams that stuff is made of.” —Anon

Maybe life is a long lost friend
The love you live to meet again
Maybe it’s real or just pretend
Maybe it has no separate ends

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

―Albert Einstein

“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”—Drew Carey

Head of human resources
Weaned in a square barred playpen
Bred for the egg-crate rat race
Gleaned the art of sneering then

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

―Robert Frost

“Unusual travel directions are dancing lessons from God.”—Kurt Vonnegut

On the rive gauche in French
One is not maladroit
Who hangs left for a stretch
To gain la route à droite
Beside the path

Sometimes people need to take the wrong path in order to lead them to the right one.

―Nashoda Rose

“At the typewriter you find out who you are.”—Tom Robbins

When Underwood dings
I stop typing till
I’m done sharpening
My Blue Pencil

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

—Mark Twain

“My life is a mosaic, and there’s no room in between pieces at all.”—Marcia Clark

They meet by serendipity,
in a surreal mirage of tile;
paired and spared for eternity,
to stand on the mosaic mile.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” —Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Shakespeare’s Prince of Denmark tells his scholarly pal, Horatio, of encountering a talking ghost wearing his late father’s armor and crown: an absurdity undreamt in Horatio’s philosophy, with which he is endowed by the enlightened rational faculty of the Bard of Avon.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.

—Ambrose Bierce

“The mind is like an umbrella. It’s most useful when open.” —Walter Gropius

Won’t flip inside-out in a gust
Nor flap like a gull in a gale
Impassively as iron rusts
The stoic umbrella prevails

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you’ll end up with a face full of rain.

—George Carlin

Posts tagged ‘Senryu’

Mad lover’s poemscompress a rosy gardenin compost and rain

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

―William Shakespeare

Maybe life is a long lost friendThe love you live to meet againMaybe it’s real or just pretendMaybe it has no separate ends

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

―Albert Einstein

Head of human resourcesWeaned in a square barred playpenBred for the egg-crate rat raceGleaned the art of sneering then

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

―Robert Frost

On the rive gauche in FrenchOne is not maladroitWho hangs left for a stretchTo gain la route à droiteBeside the path

Sometimes people need to take the wrong path in order to lead them to the right one.

―Nashoda Rose

When Underwood dingsI stop typing tillI’m done sharpeningMy Blue Pencil

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

—Mark Twain

They meet by serendipity,in a surreal mirage of tile;paired and spared for eternity,to stand on the mosaic mile.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Shakespeare’s Prince of Denmark tells his scholarly pal, Horatio, of encountering a talking ghost wearing his late father’s armor and crown: an absurdity undreamt in Horatio’s philosophy, with which he is endowed by the enlightened rational faculty of the Bard of Avon.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.

—Ambrose Bierce

Won’t flip inside-out in a gustNor flap like a gull in a galeImpassively as iron rustsThe stoic umbrella prevails

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you’ll end up with a face full of rain.

—George Carlin

Mad lover’s poems
compress a rosy garden
in compost and rain

Maybe life is a long lost friend
The love you live to meet again
Maybe it’s real or just pretend
Maybe it has no separate ends

Head of human resources
Weaned in a square barred playpen
Bred for the egg-crate rat race
Gleaned the art of sneering then

On the rive gauche in French
One is not maladroit
Who hangs left for a stretch
To gain la route à droite
Beside the path

When Underwood dings
I stop typing till
I’m done sharpening
My Blue Pencil

They meet by serendipity,
in a surreal mirage of tile;
paired and spared for eternity,
to stand on the mosaic mile.

Won’t flip inside-out in a gust
Nor flap like a gull in a gale
Impassively as iron rusts
The stoic umbrella prevails