Senryu – A Reading Writer

getting there: a senryu for TLT

December 28, 2017 areadingwriter4 Comments

Dusting gun powders,
digging buried bomb shrapnels,
dark road of hate clears.

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12.28.2017
©2017 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved.
Photo by Manu Sanchez via Unsplash

In response to Sonya of Only 100 Words‘ Three Line Tales Week 100!!! (Oh how I miss three-lining! 😀

stubborn: a senryu duet

December 27, 2017 areadingwriter19 Comments

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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Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

Sea Shells: A Senryu

October 28, 2016October 23, 2016 areadingwriter22 Comments

Silence of sea shells
against the roaring blue waves,
peace amid chaos.

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Photo credit: Unsplash

In response to OctPoWriMo 2016 by Morgan Dragonwillow‘s Day 28.

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Senryu

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

July 11, 2016July 9, 2016 areadingwriter34 Comments

Scribe: A Senryu*

You’re the bloody words,
that colored my frozen skin,
as winter wind ends.

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Photo credit: Unsplash.com

Word Inspiration: Sarah Doughty of Heartstring Eulogies (Thank you, Sarah!)

*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.