#four senryu

[stellasstones]

Four senryu

Happy to see my four senryu make it to MacQueen’s Quinterly! Many thanks to the editor Clare MacQueen! [Four Senryu] January storm my neighbor’s greenhouse flying past ::: Monday blues...last week’s special offer no longer special ::: overcast day the muted colors of hope ::: when the going gets tough the feel of your hand in mine *

[salovie]

A forked path awaits;

Hesitancy slows her steps.

To swim or to climb?

To dive or to reach?

The mountain intimidates:

A looming ascent,

Steep to the summit,

But at least she can see it.

The sea calls louder,

Darker and hungry,

With depths unknown, but, perhaps—

Worlds to discover.

[tobiasdrake]

How and Krillin and Yamcha's dynamic?

Krillin and Yamcha are bros.

Krillin and Goku is the Kame-senryu relationship that gets the most focus. And for good reason; They're tight.

But it's fun to note that they only trained together for eight months.

Yamcha and Krillin were together for three years. Minus however long it took Goku to utterly dismantle the Red Ribbon Army. Which was at least four months, given that Shenron couldn't even have reactivated until a full year past the start of Goku's training with the Muten-Roshi.

No idea what Goku was doing for the first four months of his "Gonna find Grampa's Dragon Ball" excursion, but as of the end of Red Ribbon arc, Krillin and Yamcha were officially training bros.

Also Bulma for however long it took her to find transportation and go the fuck home. XD Bulma spends basically the entire back half of the RRA arc trying to leave.

It's not super clear how much of their training was actually spent together, however. At least some amount of independent study had to have been taking place, as Yamcha was able to learn the Kamehameha in secret during their time together.

They'd also spend however long it took to climb Karin Tower and overcome Karin's Choseisui/Sacred Water training together.

Plus... something like eight months at God's Temple?

It's not super clear when exactly they left the temple. The closest to a timestamp we have is that it seems to take place concurrently with Goku catching Bubbles.

Point is, Krillin and Yamcha spent a lot of formative time together and also underwent a bit of more advanced heavenly martial arts training together as well.

Even before their training together, Krillin played a key role in the one significant fight that Yamcha ever won.

The Uranai Baba Tournament is fucking weird but it's got some key moments in it, including Yamcha's best performance in Dragon Ball. Having to fight an invisible man, Yamcha pulls out some advanced shit.

Only for Baba to begin cheating by singing loudly and off-key, disrupting Yamcha's concentration.

Yamcha had solved the problem of his opponent's invisibility, and only began losing the fight due to Baba's interference. But Krillin practices the martial art of sneaky sneaking, and is better at cheating than Baba - even if the, uh, mechanism by which he secures Yamcha's victory is gross in multiple ways.

This is a weird arc.

Despite all that training together, however, we don't see much of Krillin and Yamcha together outside of tournaments. In general, the Tenkaichi Budokai tended to be the opportunity for non-Goku characters to strut their stuff and shine in the spotlight. They were compartmentalized in such a way that Goku could dominate, but other characters could get their moment in the sun too - even in matches they lost.

If you want to know why the humans fell out of relevance, blame the death of the Tenkaichi Budokai. Once Toriyama stopped writing tournaments and made every arc into an epic battle of Strongest Protag vs. Wickedest Antag, he didn't have space for all these characters anymore.

That was already beginning to happen as early as the Red Ribbon Army arc, which sees Krillin only briefly involved in the General Blue sub-arc while Yamcha doesn't get to do anything. Until the Uranai Baba tournament brings them back into focus. Then Krillin's dead and Yamcha's hospitalized for the duration of the Piccolo-Daimao arc.

These were not Adventure Story characters; They're Tournament Story characters. Which. Became a problem. When Tournament Stories stopped happening. But for a time, the Tenkaichi Budokai was a space for them.

By the 23rd, all three of them - Goku, Krillin, and Yamcha - were considered official graduates of Kame-senryu, and expected to begin developing their own arts.

As great martial artists in their own right, walking their separate paths, they all independently reached the conclusion that they wanted to keep wearing the Turtle School gear forever.

Yeah, every time you see these characters rocking that red/orange/gold gi, just remember that the Muten-Roshi asked them to stop years ago. I wonder how he feels when he sees Gohan or Goten flying his colors?

Some birds take a bit of the nest with them when they go, I guess.

Something that's interesting to note: I don't talk a lot about the anime because... Well, as I've mentioned, there's a lot of it that puts me off. I don't think Toei has a very good grasp on the characters. But if we're on Yamcha and Krillin then I kinda need to talk about this.

One thing I couldn't help but notice is that the anime loves Yamcha, but they aren't very fond of Krillin. Krillin gets reduced to being Yamcha's kid sidekick during their filler episodes together. Even when Yamcha's not around, there's things like a running joke in the Z movies about Krillin getting oneshotted every time he ever tries to do anything - Which Krillin begins commenting despondently on as the films progress.

Mad disrespect.

My favorite filler episode in the first anime takes place in the gap between 22nd and 23rd Tenkaichi Budokais, and it features all of the boys running off to go fistfight a volcano for their training. Like, ostensibly they're trying to stop the eruption from burying a village but their mindset is on fistfighting it. Ten's like, "If Goku were here, he'd beat up the volcano. So I'm going to beat up the volcano."

Seriously. At one point Ten's just shooting ki blasts into the lava flow like he thinks he's going to punch it unconscious. This episode is brilliantly stupid.

It's awful, but entertainingly so.

In any case, it was at this period of time that Toei decided they were way more interested in trying to set up Yamcha and Tenshinhan as equally-matched battle brothers and rivals. With Krillin and Chiaotzu relegated to being their useless kid brothers. Nothing conveys this better than the very end of the episode.

We see Krillin, Ten, Chiaotzu, and Yamcha all facing down the lava flow together, even having a closeup on Krillin's determined face as they prepare to hold the line against it.

Then, between shots, Krillin stops existing so that Yamcha and Ten can have their Bro Moment uninterrupted by his presence.

He re-emerges into reality once the two of them have diverted the magma flow so he can cheer on Yamcha and Ten for saving everyone.

Meanwhile in canon,

Please understand I mean no disrespect to Yamcha when I say this. In fact, this fight ends with him getting in a pretty solid hit on God, and even a little bit of constructive praise.

But the anime sees Yamcha as the dignified martial arts rival and Krillin like a joker who gets clowned on for comic relief. But this misrepresents the roles that the characters hold within the story.

Until Vegeta came along, Yamcha was the guy whose main job was to get dunked on in order to establish how powerful the opponent truly is. He got it from Jackie Chun, he got it from Tenshinhan, he got it from the Mummy, and he got it from the Saibamen.

The anime tried to give him greater story relevance over Krillin, and that was Toei making promises that Toriyama had no intention of keeping. They gambled on Yamcha being the guy they should be hyping up, and they bet poorly. It was Krillin all along.

The 23rd TB is super interesting in this regard because Yamcha and Krillin both fill the yardstick role here. Yamcha gets dunked on to establish how strong God is while also forcing an admission of his ability and skill.

For his part, Krillin does the same for Piccolo.

Losing the match but surprising Piccolo multiple times with some slick moves, and forcing him to admit that martial artists of Krillin's caliber will make his plans difficult.

Krillin would go on to play significant roles in the battle with Vegeta, the Namek arc, and even to have a bit of focus in the Android arc. And. Well. We all know what Yamcha became famous for.

Though what you may not know, what often gets left out, is that Yamcha took that bullet for Krillin.

Not fully knowing what the Saibamen are capable of since Vegeta interrupted Ten's fight with one, Yamcha stepped up to the plate so that Krillin wouldn't have to. Volunteering to risk his life because he still has a Shenron 1-Up in his inventory but Krillin doesn't.

This moment is often remembered as "Yamcha died because he sucks and is a fool LOL". But Yamcha gave his life for Krillin. He didn't know exactly what was going to happen but he chose to face the unknown himself rather than let his bro do it.

And that, I think, says more about Yamcha's caliber as a martial artist than any number of first-round tournament losses.

[ddevriesblog]

Four haiku* and a nap

My friend Ellen Byerrum talks about how naps help with re-writing. Today I found out that writing also helps me nap! *Technically, my four short poems are actually senryu. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Denise Aileen DeVries (@deniseaileendevries) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Denise Aileen DeVries (@deniseaileendevries) View this post on Instagram A post shared…

[ivors20]

Throwback Friday, Today's Fragments (Revised)

Today’s ‘Throwback Friday’ poem is from my remembrance week a year ago “Below; I have formed one poem out of four Senryu that I wrote this morning, and I have many fractured thoughts within my soul, a decade after Carole’s passing on May 3rd 2012 at 1.15pm …“ Today’s Fragments (Revised)(A four Senryu poem)I am who I amI can’t use another man She’s my hologramI sat beside her Next to yesterday’s…

[markwatsonsbooks]

#Amreading #Newrelease: "A definitive collection of 194 haiku..."

A tree frog's eyes: haiku by David E. Navarro  

A definitive collection of 194 haiku that brings together a plethora of diverse natural, cultural, and geographical influences from Navarro's life as a wandering poet-philosopher and minister.

Navarro draws on a lifetime of learning haiku (40 years), beginning at 19 years old when he discovered its origins in the heart of ancient Chinese poetry (Sensai and Hõ Un); through the quintessential influences of the four great Japanese hokku/haiku masters, Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki -- but especially the personal pure-land nature haiku of Issa; to the classic core functional elements of kire (the cut or shift) and kigo (seasonal indication), which infuse haiku with the essential elements of zoka, ma, tathata, and toriawase, which he explains in an extensive Foreword describing the nature and essence of good haiku. These elements are the core of Navarro's haiku, but he's also experimented with many modern offshoots and adaptations. So the reader will find everything from traditional English language 5-7-5 haiku, to more modern renditions with fewer syllables, some gendai haiku, semantic disjunctions, and even some senryu. While the underlying essence of his haiku is influenced and inspired by Chinese and Japanese poetry, Navarro's haiku are thoroughly steeped in modern American nature, culture, geography, and tradition. He brings haiku to life in a way that is relatable and accessible to the modern reader while faithfully maintaining the sharp visual nature of the form.

This is as great a book for haiku poets wanting to learn more about writing haiku as it is for haiku lovers.

Order YOUR Copy HERE: https://amzn.to/3RFrISl via @amazon  

#Haiku #Poetry #PoetryBooks #PoemADay #poetrycommunity #Books #Bookstagram #Bestseller

[isabelsbookpromotions]

#Amreading #Newrelease: "A definitive collection of 194 haiku..." 

A tree frog's eyes: haiku by David E. Navarro   

A definitive collection of 194 haiku that brings together a plethora of diverse natural, cultural, and geographical influences from Navarro's life as a wandering poet-philosopher and minister. Navarro draws on a lifetime of learning haiku (40 years), beginning at 19 years old when he discovered its origins in the heart of ancient Chinese poetry (Sensai and Hõ Un); through the quintessential influences of the four great Japanese hokku/haiku masters, Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki -- but especially the personal pure-land nature haiku of Issa; to the classic core functional elements of kire (the cut or shift) and kigo (seasonal indication), which infuse haiku with the essential elements of zoka, ma, tathata, and toriawase, which he explains in an extensive Foreword describing the nature and essence of good haiku. These elements are the core of Navarro's haiku, but he's also experimented with many modern offshoots and adaptations. So the reader will find everything from traditional English language 5-7-5 haiku, to more modern renditions with fewer syllables, some gendai haiku, semantic disjunctions, and even some senryu. While the underlying essence of his haiku is influenced and inspired by Chinese and Japanese poetry, Navarro's haiku are thoroughly steeped in modern American nature, culture, geography, and tradition. He brings haiku to life in a way that is relatable and accessible to the modern reader while faithfully maintaining the sharp visual nature of the form. This is as great a book for haiku poets wanting to learn more about writing haiku as it is for haiku lovers.

Order YOUR Copy HERE: https://amzn.to/3RFrISl via @amazon   

#Haiku #Poetry #PoetryBooks #PoemADay #poetrycommunity #Books #Bookstagram #Bestseller

[kennethahuff]

see... sunsets don’t suck

—

Overheard wisdom.

8:06 p.m., May 2019, St. Joseph’s Sound, Dunedin, Florida.

[ntx575]

Gone

Quickly just like thatAnd blown to the four cornersAre our desires

[salovie]

we stand so close but

rooted, never touching, and

the trees sympathize

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

Well i was trying to write something for you to analyse but ended up writing a letter instead so.... 🔬 steven meeks i guess (i just hope I don't give serial killer vibes or something)

Also can I also get

🎎 shizuku tsukishima and 📜elizabeth bennet???

Like i know all of them take quite a lot of effort and it's okay if you can't

I'll probably die of happiness if you do make a playlist or write me a poem though

okay first here is the playlist-

i don't actually wish you were gay lmao that's a motif i really adore because we are the beacons of yearning

and there because i apparently got into senryus because of another mutual, here's one for you-

morose are my gardens

when i look around for you

in my memories.

okay so here's the analysis... (also, i'm just- awww you really think all this about me? uwu i'm gonna cry so hard rn. send in more of your handwritten stuff maybe i'll reply to you in my handwriting. ask everything you want to, i'll reply to every questions that you have, be it handwritten or text idc i just wanna talk. i'll ask questions too if you don't mind)

ik the whole thing before handed i'm just typing lol

gestalt-

small handwriting- introverted, doesn't feel comfy with lots of attention directed right at them

small second zone- introverted, anti-social to some serious me level extent (that's two)

big first zone- thinks a lot, daydreamer, imaginative

very very obviously forward-leaning handwriting signifying ray of sunshine energy

moderate third zone- not too greedy, materialistic to a very common, humane extent

upward baseline also signifying ray of sunshine energy

legible- doesn't face issues with thought communication which is why you're such a good poet

semi specifics-

bunched up letters- knows themselves really well, likes to keep family close, far off words- doesn't like social interaction too much, introverted (that's three)

rounded handwriting of the Goldilocks zone kind (not me using an astronomical term for graphological purposes, nOPE)- not sympathetic to mean people, friendly in a similar fashion

connected letters- efficiency, likes to keep family and friends close (that's two)

letter specifics-

firstly, stick figure l- intellectual and practical (that's two)

flourish I- high self-esteem

high t bars- high self-esteem (that's two)

craftsman r, duh- imaginative, artistic (obviously, also that's a two)

rounded i dots- quirky, creative (three and hence manifested)

rounded w's and b's- sensitive, sympathetic, poetic (here we go, manifested)

long down stroked g's, y's and f's- loves the outdoors, down-to-earth, practical, kinda restless too

closed ovals- reserved (there we go)

narrow, ink-filled e's- possibility of violence (just one alarm that's no worry)

big capitals- vanity (that's a three)

rounded m's and n's- creative, logical, careful, warm and nice to good folks (now that's four i think and a three as well)

conclusion- intelligent, creative, artistic and sympathetic person who loves to be with family and friends. might fear isolation to some extent too. high self-esteem and pretty reserved. really optimistic, introverted and deep thinker.

p.s. so sorry for the late reply. i think i cleared out my inbox except for some wand analysis so yay. thanks for being so patient with me.

[dbaydenny]

Four horses come, turn from the path of evil hooves, run the other way. D W Eldred

[kabutoraiger]

Oh man... I was watching some youtube videos and I came across a clip from the Kamen Rider 45x40 Anniversary live and show. The imajins performing Climax Jump. I cried legit tears of nostalgia watching it. Time Judged All ~8 years later~ has a similar effect on me. How about you? Do you have any particular character related songs that hit you in the feels? On that note do you have any recommendations? Or songs you'd like to exist? Some SenRyu and SawaMisora performed by the actors comes to mind.

god yeah basically any version of climax jump or double action really gets me. :’) that’s in a “filled with love” kind of way, of course.

my #1 is probably kiba’s character song “cross a river”.... the cuteness of the music + the lyrics + all of my soul-destroying kiba emotions it’s just like. oof. yuka’s makes me extremely happy/sad as well. and four divertimentos no.1 along with the other faiz guitar piece “fragments of a dream”... not character songs in any typical sense but they feel like they are somehow, y’know?

really you can just hand me anything faiz related and i’ll probably cry over it

and i’m still mad as hell i never got a champ/stinger duet out of the kyu character songs!! how could they deprive me like this. and if they did this sort of thing for ultra a saki/asahi one would be like (lies down and doesn’t get back up)

[pochqmqri]

Crunchyroll announced that they would be picking up the third installment of the King of Prism anime series, “King of Prism -Shiny Seven Stars-,” following the films “King of Prism” in 2016 and “King of Prism -Pride the Hero-” in 2017. 

The first two King of Prism films have not been released outside of Asia yet. The franchise is a spin-off of the female-oriented Pretty Rhythm franchise, which also gave way to the PriPara and Pri☆chan franchises as its successors. 

“King of Prism -Shiny Seven Stars-” was planned to air in two different formats: a set of four theatrical films, and a 12-episode anime series. The four films would each contain three episodes from the anime, although truncated. As of this writing, three films have been released since March of this year, with the final film planned for premiere on May 4th. The 12-episode TV anime started airing in Japan on April 8th. 

It is unknown so far, which format Crunchyroll plans to stream on April 15th, or if it will be both.

[recentanimenews]

Sentai Filmworks Licenses Ao-Chan Cant Study! and More

  Catching up on some licensing news that got lost in the April Fools' Day shuffle, Sentai Filmworks has announced a slate of four Spring 2019 simulcast titles that will also receive a release later on home video, including Ao-Chan Can't Study!, Senryu Girl, Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher!?, and NAMUAMIDABUTSU! -UTENA-. Sentai Filmworks describes each show as follows:

    Ao-Chan Can't Study!

Ao Horie’s father, a popular erotic fiction author, chose Ao’s name because A stands for “apple” and O stands for “orgy”! Desperate to escape her father’s legacy and get into a prestigious university, Ao devotes herself to studying instead of pursuing romance. She has no time for boys, but there’s just one problem: Kijima, her handsome and popular classmate, just confessed his love to her! And to make matters worse, she can’t stop thinking dirty thoughts about him! Looks like escaping her father’s influence will be harder than she thought…

    Senryu Girl

At first glance Yukishiro Nanako seems like a normal high school girl, but she has a notable eccentricity: instead of speaking, she communicates only through written senryu poetry! This means she expresses herself only in 5-7-5 syllables. To most this might seem like an inconvenience, but for Nanako and her ex-delinquent bestie, Busujima Eiji, it adds to the experience of their high school lives as they run the Literature Club.

    Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher!?

Ichiro Sato is about as average as a student can get… except for his above-average ability to land himself in totally awkward, intensely risqué situations with his no-nonsense teacher, Kana Kojima! Ichiro has his hands full dealing with these steamy shenanigans and unexpected encounters in the most unlikely places. At least it can’t get any worse, right?

    NAMUAMIDABUTSU! -UTENA-

Long before superheroes, there were legends. One of them begins with Shaka Nyorai, whose bravery and enlightenment once saved humanity forever. But forever is fleeting because Mara, the personification of Earthly desires, forges a corrupt coalition with the devil to again visit wrath and vengeance upon humankind. To counter Mara’s cruel attack, Taishakuten and Bonten, divine beings, must join forces with the Thirteen Buddhas. Can the allied powers of light defeat the vicious onslaught and save humankind in their darkest hour?

  Source: Official Sentai Filmworks home page

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Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[ronovanwrites]

Haiku Challenge 336 Poets Collected.

Haiku Challenge 336 Poets Collected. #MondayBlogs #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #Haiku #Tanka #ShiRensa #Senryu #Poems #Poetry #Monday #PoetryBlogs #politics #life #introspection #love #poem #art #writing #thoughts #poetrylovers #nature

Links to the 29 Poets with around 37 Poems from last week’s challenge of MAD and Sane and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on. Please visit the blogs you haven’t yet. Visiting and clicking that like, if we like the poem, is something of an encouragement. No, we don’t NEED likes, but they’re nice to have. Here are Four of our Poets who’s offerings jumped out to me this…