Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Sumo


                                                                                   Attribution: FourTildes
Image: Sumo Wrestler Masuraumi
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)

Male dominated
A sport steeped with traditions
in modern Japan

Towering above
other underlings weighing
some four hundred pounds

Stomping and pushing
Grappling the thick loin cloth
Hissing and heaving

A fight lasts seconds
but adrenalin flow rise
to  its peak all night

Written for Chev’s Carpe Diem #202 with prompt  - tower

10 comments:

  1. i just have a hard time envisioning female sumo...just saying...some awesome power they are throwing around you know...i would not want to get in the ring...just saying...

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    1. You're right, Brian! The rough and tough, rumble and tumble makes it exclusively male. Apparently there're no women fighters just yet!

      Hank

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  2. I have to go along with Brian. Difficult enough to imagine anyway, but with female contestants...

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  3. Yeah female sumo hard to imagine indeed. Not sure why anyone would want to get that large though.

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  4. Awesome take on The Tower, a surprising take ...

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  5. Wonderful 'take' on Tower ~ very well penned ~

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  6. I started to think about female sumo... and it's something I really dont't want visiting my dreams

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  7. Quite an unusual take on the prompt! Tall

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  8. I wouldn't want this gentleman to "tower" over me. lol

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