At Luminaria Arts Night in San Antonio, we set up shop on a street corner and offered to write senryu poems on the spot for any passers-by - all they had to do was share with us a memory connected with light, the theme for the night. (Senryu is a Japanese form consisting of 3 lines, 17 syllables.) The poems are posted here. We don't claim them to be masterpieces, but each one represents a moment when we sat down with a stranger, listened to what they had to say, and tried to give it back to them in a different way. Now that's poetry.
Comments are welcome - let us know what you think or write your own poem to share with us!
Mei and Chih
Walking down Main Street, colored lights dance at Christmas far from our home.
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