social distancing
under travel restrictions
streetcar to nowhere
Off prompt for Day 21 at napowrimo.net, this senryū is my response to Colleen’s #Tanka Tuesday Weekly#Poetry Challenge No. 222 #Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt.
~ Day 21 ~
Image source: mollyroselee at Pixabay
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That’s exactly how it feels!
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Thank you, V.J.
It’s almost like a “drought of connection,” but I couldn’t figure out how to word it. Now that I have, I guess it could be substituted for “social distancing.”
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Welcome.
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It’s funny that’s where your mind went from the image, but I guess these things are on all of our minds.
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Actually, I first though of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” (Maybe because it will be on TCM next week?) I then thought about what people have most desired in the last year, and what has stood in the way. Yeah, my mind is a jungle.
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When I saw “streetcar” in your title, I thought of A Streetcar Named Desire. Younger daughter and her husband met when they performed in it in college. She was Blanche and he was Stanley. Their director officiated at their wedding. I think poets’ minds work differently than non-poets’ minds.😀
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That’s a nice memory.
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It is! 💙
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Very good poem Ken. To bad Silverstein is not around to write, “Where the Street Car Tracks end!”
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Ha! I can imagine what he’d have to say about this past year.
Thanks, Dwight.
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:>)
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Love this and it perfectly ties in with the image. It’s more that the sum of its words. Well done
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Thank you.
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A brilliant senryu, Ken! It’s that sense of abandonment and loss that you picked up on from the photo. I love this! ❤
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😀 Thank you, Colleen.
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You’re most welcome. ❤
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Wonderfully portrayed.
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Thank you.
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Pleasure
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Exactly. (K)
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Spread the word.
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Yes.
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