APR 6, Japan Visit: Kyoto 1

 

eye-and mouth-watering sushi at the Station

Kyoto train station

the trendy waterside Gion district,
 former geisha quarter

 

TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

Giorgio Coniglio,

pseudonymic poet, tries,

but seldom succeeds.

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. 

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