Serene Sea: A Senryu*

Serene Sea: A Senryu*

you’re a serene sea,
sometimes your screams sink me, yet
always, you save me.

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Photo credit: Charlie Harutaka

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In response to Sonya of Only 100 Words‘ Three Line Tales Week Ten.

If you want to join (it’s not too late and it is surely fun), here are the simple rules:

• Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt.
• Link back to this post.
• Tag your post with 3LineTales (so we can find you in the Reader).
• Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.
• Have fun.

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*Senryu

The Senryu is:

• a poem in 3 lines or less.
• syllabic, 17 syllables or less.
• commonly written in 3 lines but can be written in 2 lines and can be written with fewer syllables, never more.
  • L1 5 syllables describes image.
  • L2 7 syllables, adds conflicting image or expands first image
  • L3 5 syllables provides insight (the ah ha! moment)through a juxtaposed image.
• written as a natural human experience in language that is simple, humorous, sometimes bawdy or vulgar.
• presented with an energy or liveliness in the focus and choice of words
• often humorous
• written in the moment.
• an imagist poem (draws the humor from the image)
• untitled but can be #ed.