MAR 19, Japan Visit: Kyoto 2

conveyor-belt sushi

CLASSIC JAPANESE HAIKU, in translation

even in Kyoto,

hearing the cuckoo's song,

I long for Kyoto.

Kobayashi Issa

TODAY'S POEM (senryu, a haiku variant *) 

snacks and essentials --

I buy those at konbini

(convenience stores).

Giorgio Coniglio

 * learn more HERE about senryu, 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. 

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