suppl. Aug 29: facing reality (four terse verses)

 

TODAY'S POEMS (senryu *) 

#1

contentious old name 

by Associated Press -- 

Gulf of Mexico.

#2

"Canada's PM -- 

not a state governor, 

I recently learned."

#3

 sole remaining hope -- 

customary reversal

in midterm elections.

 #4

 paunchy thirty-six,  

I buy size thirty-two pants:

weight loss now required.

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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