APR 16, Japan Visit: another day at Osaka's World's Fair

 

Hurry up and wait! Eager visitors rush from the subway station

queue for the entrance security-check

only aa few pavilions could be visited without a specific timed reservation (onerous to obtain);
this was one of our favorites

 

CLASSIC ENGLISH-HAIKU 

The apparition of these faces

in the crowd;

Petals on a dark, wet bough.

Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro".

TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

 

world exposition,

Osaka, 2025 --

transit system stress.

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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