Senryu #0

Senryu # 0

 

paying lip service

roses bloom for president

garden keeps mouth shut

 

 

10/7/25

Reviews

[Andrew John]

And what do we think of your current president? Anyway, nice thoughts here, Mr J.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Ha ha ha. Not a whole lot.
j.

[h d e rushin]

In 1961, Bunny Mellon redesigned the Rose Garden during the Kennedy Administration. Katherine Crabapples, Magnolia * soulangeana, boarded by diamond sapped hedges of thyme, were planted and in spring, offered a sweet rush of white/green blossoms and fragrance. If only gardens could tell us about the glory of the moment. But throughout their long history, flowers have kept, quite even as they've watched the dying of those hands that planted them. Men stand behind rostrums and pontificate. In contrast, flowers lay in their beds of soil as witnesses to everything, but with nothing to say. It's all so unfair.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

It really is unfair...so unfair...Roses signify love and peace. Not the current Rose Garden.
I did not know about Bunny Mellon...thank you for that, dana, we learn something new everyday.
j.

[Chris Shaw]

He’s smelling of roses right now for his efforts today. Plenty of world wide publicity. Maybe the rest of the garden stinks? What say you j?

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

All for accolades...his speech hardly mentioned the hostages or families...just Biden and how he was the worst president in history...and how he has stopped 8 Wars...I wish he would list them.

[Desert Knave]

Wow. Yeah, a few blossoms in "Hostage Square" and suddenly all the things he's said and done are unseen. ~Jim

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I still see him for who he is.
j.