A Few Indian City Senryū

I
crossing the street
in Bangalore traffic —
never more alive

 

II
even in wee hours,
if I hear only silence,
I know I’m asleep

 

III
random backstreet:
yet, more color than a
carnival midway

DAILY PHOTO: Houston Skyline

Taken in August of 2018 in Houston, Texas

DAILY PHOTO: Indy from The Eiteljorg Museum

Taken in the summer of 2011 in Indianapolis.

DAILY PHOTO: ArtScience Museum & the Singapore Skyline

Taken in Singapore in October of 2016.

DAILY PHOTO: RBI & Writer’s Building, Kolkata

Taken in Kolkata in July of 2016.

DAILY PHOTO: Road to the Singapore Flyer

Taken in Singapore in October of 2016.

DAILY PHOTO: The King & Queen of Sandy Springs

Taken in Sandy Springs in 2012.

DAILY PHOTO: Coney Island Beach

Taken in August of 2007 in Brooklyn.

DAILY PHOTO: Chicago River

Taken in July of 2018 in Chicago.

Five City Limericks


There was a buxom lass of London
who was perpetually undone —
her plotting, it flopped —
her buttons, they popped.
She was undone in more ways than one.


There once was a man from New York
who would only eat using a fork.
You’d think soup his ruin,
but ’twasn’t his undoin’ —
he starved over a giant slab of pork.


There was a young gal from Tokyo
who used her umbrella in the snow.
‘Twas structurally sound,
and held eighty pounds.
huge biceps had that buff girl of Tokyo.


There was a young man of New Delhi
who thought himself the new Machiavelli.
He said, “Make them fear,
or you’ll see them sneer!”
…’twere not for his knees made of jelly.


There was a salesman from Nairobi
whose mind trick was like Ben Kenobi’s —
or so he did think,
but — despite psychic link —
he couldn’t sell even one Flowbee.