JUN 29, indigenous sport

 

TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

 

aboriginals

inspired the game of  lacrosse, 

not base- or foot- ball.

 

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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