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West Meets East and Aristotle Meets Basho These little things are not poetry but a simple marriage of the poem and essay forms Poessays in fact are opinions expressed poetically Editors |
I dropped into my neighbors You look serious lately I have a worry Please leave me alone I say huh ... |
change the subject he says Have you become bald lately he asks the subject has not changed Aonuma Seiichiro |
I said Good morning to a neighbor this morning as I always do Good afternoon Good evening and so on |
praise me say I'm friendly but I don't know their names Kenta Yoshina |
I was born in Kyoto grew up in Kyoto and now live in Kyoto Tourists visit Kyoto |
temples shrines and gardens Beautiful beautiful they say I don't understand Mariko Sugie |
My grandmother was born in Kyoto My mother and I were not Can we ever become Kyoto folks? |
will I hear people say You are from Kyoto! Yuka Nawano |
Mother takes two hours to cook a delicious dinner We eat it in ten minutes Asami Fujii |
I have two brothers We sometimes quarrel over a trifle Then I think they are annoying But my friend who doesn't have a brother or sister says I envy you Shizuka Ueno |
It is hot today I turn on the air conditioner but he turns it off It is not kind to the Earth Yes and you are not kind to me I think |
I got tired of society of people and went off to an uninhabited island Hey where is the convenience store I ask myself Shinsaku Fukuoka |
When my friends worry about something I think it's a small worry when I worry about something the worry is always big Fumi Aiyama |
my room is dirty I clean my room but my room is soon dirty again so I decide I won't enter my room frequently so my room remains clean Yuki Ueno |
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I am walking on the beach with you there are two footprints of me and you |
when I was in trouble there was only one Keigo Kondo |