Dusting gun powders,
digging buried bomb shrapnels,
dark road of hate clears.
Tag: Senryu
stubborn: a senryu duet
Stubborn thoughts surface
refusing to hibernate
in winter’s cold breast.
Mind’s cotyledons
cracking the thick bed of snow
‘fore the first spring bloom.
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12.27.2017
F.T. Ledrew x R. C. Gonzales
(Remember Thomas, friends and poets? 😀 Who missed him like I did?! Raise your hands! 😀
P.S. Thank you for this first collab, Thomas! ;))
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Sea Shells: A Senryu
Silence of sea shells
against the roaring blue waves,
peace amid chaos.
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In response to OctPoWriMo 2016 by Morgan Dragonwillow‘s Day 28.
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So if you are wondering if a 3 line, 17 syllable poem is Haiku or Senryu, you can pretty much place the serious poem in the Haiku column and the more human, humorous poems as the Senryu. (but there are humorous Haiku and serious Senryu, go figure..)
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.
Scribe
Scribe: A Senryu*
You’re the bloody words,
that colored my frozen skin,
as winter wind ends.
—
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Word Inspiration: Sarah Doughty of Heartstring Eulogies (Thank you, Sarah!)
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.
Logorrhea: A Senryu
You confess your love
then swiftly you take it back,
tell me, are you drunk?
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03.18.2016
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Hands Up
Hands Up: A Senryu
My soul surrenders,
into Your hands I confess–
purify my heart.
—
03.07.2016
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Have a blessed Sunday, everyone!
❤
Tell Me
Tell Me: A Senryu
Can you hold my heart?
Or you’ll just break it in parts?
Please let me know.
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02.11.2016
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Last Time
Last Time: A Senryu
Let your arms hold me,
let your warmth wrapped me wholly,
please, for the last time?
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02.21.2016
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Colored Road
Colored Road: A Senryu
Blue car halts, screeches,
kid suddenly runs, crosses
black road turns to red.
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02.17.2016
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Thank You Note
Thank You Note: A Senryu
Thank you dear buses
for letting me write musings
and of course Senryu.
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02.10.2015
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P.S. I will miss you, bus-inspired ideas.
I hope even without my hour-long bus ride, my mind will still churn more, and let me write. ❤