JUN 1, birdlore: a snowy egret's fishing tale

a) Reprise of material posted on June 1 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, Sharpie-gate (illustrated poem)
2021: numbers and counting, zero(0) and one(1) (poem) 

2022: savoir-faire, bilingual labelling (illustrated poem)
2023: medical testing, true-positive rate (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 1, 2024):

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am I dreaming?

TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

 

aspirations fade --

catching the world's biggest fish

Why should I struggle?

 

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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