- sleepless beast -

currently listening to - Sleepless Beauty (K.ITO + D.K)
mood - i think i have panda eyes

finally we received our UA tanka collection. we've read the poems written by students from the previous year (according to our teacher, every year the UA students will create a tanka collection). there were funny ones, but most of the poems were serious: environment, homeland, etc etc..

just wondering why our batch is so.... half-hearted? don't know what's the correct word. we just love to fool around. not that we're the worst students, since the essay teacher praised that we're the most responsible (but not so punctual) students that he ever had. though our japanese culture teacher did complain that we're the noisiest people ever.

with that i'd like to share a few poems that we made during class.

一　　今日こそは　学校に行く　私だが　漢字のテスト　終わるまで待つ
(i swear i'll go to school today. but after the kanji test ends.)

二　　淋しいな　誰かお誘い　くださいな　彼氏がほしい　彼氏がほしい
(i am so lonely. someone please seduce me. i want a boyfriend. i want a boyfriend.)

三　　どうしよう　せっかく見つけた　プレゼント　よく見てみると　非売品だよ
(what am i supposed to do? i thought i finally found a present.
but after looking at it carefully, it's actually not for sale.)

四　　クリスマス　手紙をゲット　でも実は　「十二千払え」　請求書だった
(i received a letter during christmas. but it's actually the telephone bill asking for 12k.)

五　　オンナとは　執念深い　生き物だ　一度キレたら　逃げ道はない
(women are implacable creatures. once they snap, you have nowhere to escape.)

etc etc etc.... i'm too lazy to translate all of them.

personally i love the 2nd one. man, if we showed this to the japanese culture teacher, he must think that we're crazy...

of course there are proper poems as well.. like..

火のように　始まり強く　火のように　風に吹かれて　人生終わる
(life begins intensely, just like fire. and ends just like fire when blown by wind.)

let's just hope my scholarship won't end like that as well.

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1) tanka - japanese short poem. it consists of 5 units, usually with the 5-7-5-7-7 mora pattern.