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This orchid is found in Australia, although it is so rare there is a website devoted specifically to sightings of it.

However, interestingly enough there is also a website selling the seeds! (Hmm, I wonder if they are hard to grow...)

Without the picture you would not know the ballerina is a flower, but that is the (subtle) point - she has no shoes because as beautiful as she is, she has no feet. (Imagine - a dancer with no feet!) (Perhaps she is lame, perhaps she is just too poor to buy shoes, and so on.)

A senryu is not about nature - it is about people - this poem should not be about a flower to be a true senryu - the orchid is merely the vehicle for the message.

The beauty of Japanese poetry (IMO) is how truly complex it is, rife with hidden meaning or layers beneath a very deceptive simplistic surface.

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