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Texas-born Louisiana Creole | ap embrasé mô larasinn-yé banbay.🤘🏾⚜️
tanka/senryu poet
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大あくびのア御神酒を見つけち
Ō-akubi no a-omiki o mitsuke-chi

"ah, spotted the sacred sake!"—right in the middle of a giant yawn

- inoue kenkabo, "Senryu Manga 1930"

#senryu
January 6, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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梅に酔ひ櫻になまる比也
Ume ni yoi sakura ni namaru koro nari

the time has come to be intoxicated by plum blossoms and feel sluggish under the cherries

- anon

#senryu #tenmei
January 6, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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初夢を二口にするは得手勝手
Hatsuyume o futakuchi ni suru wa etekatte

to claim two different "First Dreams" is quite selfish

- anon

#senryu #tenmei
January 6, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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元日にいけしゃあ〜とよみかへし
Ganjitsu ni ikesha-sha to yomikaeshi

on New Year's Day, he brazenly reads back the poem

- anon

#senryu #tenmei
January 6, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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on New Year's day, in bed translating classical senryu #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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my ship, navigating through the 44 uncertain seas #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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near the airplane hanger marriage of a young couple #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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nearing 3 am the raspy of a male sex-worker's voice #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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a curious anxiety rises, warming up a mug of tea #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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writing Renga with him, freshness of maples follow me home #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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descending descending—becoming rain scent sometimes #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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home in bed—the joy of playing with my belly-button #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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#note2self: Bit by bit, im working on this theory/idea (whatever) that the Japanese #senryu is the counterpart to the Black American/American #blues poem/and music.

the characteristics of the Blues (both poems and music); seem to me, to be found within the #senryu.
January 6, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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can't wait for shift's end, not favorably disposed toward folks #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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#notetoself - interestingly Suifu Kishimoto-sensei, one of the 6 Masters of Senryu, when discussing his philosophy for #senryu, mentions Yoshido Kenko's "Tsurezuregusa" (Essays in Idleness) which is one of the pillar works of the genre #zuihitsu. ...

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January 6, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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taking a longer walk, slight coughing in the dark #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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in my position, noticing Housekeeping don't get paid much #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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a dissolving sugar cube—cool darkness in my heart #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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負に処す娘に似たる冬の灯よ — 菅百鬼
The winter lamp, like a girl resigned to loss — Kan Hyakki

#senryu
January 6, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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物足らぬ日曜なりしか灯をともす — 青年・永府
An unsatisfying Sunday — lighting the lamp — Seinen; Eifu

#senryu
January 6, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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負に処す娘に似たる冬の灯よ — 菅百鬼
The winter lamp, like a girl resigned to loss — Kan Hyakki

#senryu
January 6, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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unsatisfying Monday—senryu my only salvation today #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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at the bus stop, another day burning up my life-force #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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wanting to fall in love, pale pink blossoms bloom #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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frustrated: will Climate Control cheat me out of another winter #senryu
January 6, 2026 at 3:53 AM