Live forward

Each year a theme is chosen for the Imperial Japanese poetry competition in Japan. This year's theme is "Sei," meaning "to live forward."

Sweetpersimmon blog has a delightful description of the competition. Read about it at http://sweetpersimmon1.blogspot.com/2009/01/living-forward-for-year.html

Please also take a minute to visit the sweetpersimmon blog's sister website, http://www.issoantea.com/