Poem: "suànpán"

[ysabetwordsmith]

This poem is spillover from the April 3, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by discussions with siege and kelkyag following the poem " lacquerware."  It belongs to the Edopunk science fiction series Lacquerware.  This particular piece was based on the abacus, an ancient calculating device.  The tanka form is native to Japan.

suànpán

a tea tray figures

Comments

[kelkyag]

Tea master / accountant?

Okay...

[ysabetwordsmith]

From this I got the tanka "chadō" about the union of these two disciplines.
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Re: Okay...

[kelkyag]

Accounting rarely gets credit for grace or elegance. :)

[thnidu]

Ace, deuce, trey... Oh, that's not what you meant?

*laugh*

[ysabetwordsmith]

Different kind. ;)