a) Reprise of material posted on July 26 in previous calendar years ...
2020: magic canal palindromes, more far-flung venues (wordplay)
2021: Toronto ravines, Glen Stewart ravine (illustrated poem)
2022: saving the planet, compostables (illustrated poem)
2023: creative anachronism, heavenly host (poem)
TODAY'S POEM ('senryu' *)
Alaska ursines --
photographer's adventures.
safe return, old friend!
Giorgio Coniglio
* learn more HERE about "senryu", a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature.
Readers can check our other adventures about bears by clicking on this parody-song.
Authors' Note: Apparently, the brown bear (Ursus arctos) is in many circumstances, less territorial, less aggressive, and less dangerous to humans than its relatives, members of the physically similar subspecies, the grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis).
In Alaska, coastal brown bears, especially those growing up in national parks near the southern coast, become tolerant of the presence of humans, as shown by these photos from an expedition there, as recently obtained and kindly offered for viewing here by my wildlife-photographer buddy, Bill Wingfield, from an earlier ursine adventure.
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