Akitomo Iijima
A line I don't want to forget
Invincible when putting one foot on the horizontal bar
Written by Nakahara Reiko. Included in "Wafer on the Lips" (Sousosha).
I read it as a scene from "ashikake mawari." In recent years, the phrase "invincible person" has become popular. This refers to someone who has nothing to lose, and is invincible in a way that is inextricably linked to despair. But the invincibility in this poem is the opposite. It is inextricably linked to confidence. This is because the fear he felt when spinning on the horizontal bar has disappeared, and now even he himself is no longer his enemy. This sense of invincibility awaits him, and he can look forward positively.
I don't want to forget my own line
If you turn the faucet upside down, it becomes a summer seasonal word.
Included in "The Month of Growing Pains" (Soryusha).
Daisuke Kawai
A line I don't want to forget
Good loneliness
Written by Momomoto Yagimoto. Included in "I Slept with Baumkuchen" (Shunyodo Shoten).
"Good loneliness." This is a whole haiku. You might ask, "Is this a senryu when it's not in 5-7-5?", but I was inspired by the possibility of "expression." The courage to go so far. If you look at it as a haiku, "loneliness" is outside the 5-7-5 format, making it a meta-structured haiku about being lonely, but it's interesting without any logic to it. The interesting word is courage.
I don't want to forget my own line
The power of a sekiwake to dig a time tunnel
Included in "River World" (Shoshi Kankanbo).
Momomoto Yagimoto
A line I don't want to forget
I forgot I was alive, it was shining
Written by Fukawa Soto. Included in "Complete Collection of Senryu Writers: Fukawa Soto" (Shinyokan Publishing).
Why is it that everything is shining brightly even though it feels like the end? "Why?" "No." "Yes." I feel so sad and in despair, yet why is everything so bright? "The future is always mysterious." "Huh?" As we stand at the end, you and I are shining brightly. I open my eyes. I suddenly say, "The future is always light."
I don't want to forget my own line
If we meet, I might throw flowers at you.
Included in "I Fell Asleep with Baumkuchen" (Shunyodo Shoten).
Yuichi Sasaki
A line I don't want to forget
There is also a cough from around the second century B.C.
Written by Kimura Hanmonsen. Included in "Nice to meet you, modern senryu" (Shoshi Kankanbo).
Even when you cough, you're alone, only half-heartedly lonely. Of course, all those people from 2,000 years ago were wiped out... The loneliness of the cough in senryu is incredible. But there's something strange about it. It's as if the cough, which turns into a super-solitude, along with other coughs, can happen anytime. The carelessness and laziness of "goro" (around the time). You can go and be completely alone. Modern senryu is complexly positive. Isn't that right?
I don't want to forget my own line
No matter what happens to Lingxiao, it's my loss.
Included in "Omelette Rice for Baba" (private edition).
