Best Sumo Poems

underneath
the flesh of the sky
mountains sprinkle
sea salt
from their hands
before they perform
the sumo ritual dance...

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in the sumo ring 
two wrestlers face each other ~
one almighty clash...

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sumo wrestling
corpulent men wearing diapers
what kind of people watch this?
I stare as one gets flopped with his enormous legs in the air
Showing more than I ever wanted to see...

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A French poet
once called it
“the miracle of balance.”
While traveling around the world,
Jean Cocteau
observed that in this sport,
the strongest does not always win.
He marveled at the essence of this contest,
saying:
“The rikishi are
pink, youthful giants,
as if they have stepped down
from the ceiling frescoes
of the Sistine Chapel,
a rare...

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