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sanjuktaa
3 days ago

Philip Rowland says:


"I can't recall any story behind the poem, can only say that it was written here in Tokyo where I live, and that, for me, it has a concrete poetic element".


So it's for you, dear readers, to fill up the spaces between the lines.


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Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
6 days ago

Excellent! I echo Srinivasan's comment.

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Mohua
Mohua
6 days ago

I really like this ku which highlights transience in every word - melting away like snow, snowman and man's vows. Superb! Thank a lot for sharing.

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Perhaps the shortest 3 liner I ever read. It can be read as a fragment/phrase, snow/man's vows or as a run on fragment, snow man's vows. Either way it's good

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sanjuktaa
5 days ago
Replying to

Srinivas, I think John Stevenson has one that goes something like:

five seven five But I am quoting from memory. I may be wrong about the poet too.

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