By Scott Bailey © 2013
Brushed by death today
Twice.
Metal boxes speeding
Too fast, too near me
Driven on by the wrong thoughts
Or expensive wanderings
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Tag: Senryu
Future
By Scott Bailey © 2018
This is serious
The future makes me tremble
These frightening days
In response to COLLEEN’S WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 108, “AFRAID & GRAVE,” #SYNONYMSONLY
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A senryu (sort of) this week. Very late and a little hurried
#senryu
Lost Realm
By Scott Bailey © 2018
For a sweet moment
This green forest was all mine
My own secret realm
Now, it is fenced off, private
Playground of the privileged
In response to COLLEEN’S WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 107, “HAUNT & SPELL,” #SYNONYMSONLY
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A tanka this week.
#tanka
Youth
By Scott Bailey © 2018
The passion of youth
Fires the body to action
After a lay in
In response to COLLEEN’S WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 102, “VIGOR & ENERGY,” #SYNONYMSONLY
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A quick senryu this week
#senryu
No Change
By Scott Bailey © 2018
Screaming at the storm
The words lost in the thunder
Storm undeflected
In response to COLLEEN’S WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 99, “CHANGE & DEFY,” #SYNONYMSONLY
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Another senryu – I have taken the opposite of one of the words this time so a bit of a cheat.
#senryu
Dying Dreams
By Scott Bailey © 2018
My pen to paper
The dream I just cannot grasp
Er, except for now
In response to COLLEEN’S WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 98, “SAD & WRITE,” #SYNONYMSONLY
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I think this qualifies as a senryu?
#senryu
Poem a day challenge #249 (Dressing Up)
Dressing Up
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Watching dressing up
A mini ninja dancing
Whirling all in black
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “A Moment in Time.”
Zombie Apocalypse?
By Scott Bailey © 2015
From paper to cheek
Paint is slapped with joyful glee
Release the zombie!
Zombie Apocalypse?
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Audience of One.”
To Me (Senryu)
By Scott Bailey © 2014
To my younger self
Don’t be so bloody afraid
Have fun and prosper
To Me
Poem a day challenge #244 (Ouch)
Ouch
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Eyes are so painful
This is difficult to write
So it’s all you get
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Poem a day challenge #205 (Choices)
Choices
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Choices, where are mine?
They seem to have slipped away
Somewhere down river
Get the previous ones here
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Poem a Day Challenge #34 (Cross – Senryu version)
Today I was made aware of the poetic form of the Senryu and what distinguishes it from a Haiku. I was not aware of this and so my past attempts were probably hybrids in many cases.
If you are interested in the difference there is a good page here explaining it.
I was made aware of it by these posts.
and
Over at the blog of Bastet and Sekhmet
So here is my first attempt – which is yesterday’s poem distilled into this form.
Senryu: Cross
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Fleeing from killers
The child runs desperately
To fill out a form.
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