Category Archives: Senryu

Purple [Senryū]

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Photograph of purple flowers taken in Zipaquirá, Colombia.
though purple flowers
 adorn a shrub,
  it doesn't act kingly.

What’d I Do? [Senryū]

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one bloom faces me;
 two face away.
   what'd I do?

Reading Clouds [Haiku]

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at rest on a hill,
 clouds form & shift shapes;
  i read their story.

Banana Leaf Ant [Senryū]

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an ant on a leaf seems small; 
 on a banana leaf -- somehow -- big.

Rogue Ducks [Senryū]

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Photograph of Neermahal Palace on Rudrasagar Lake in Tripura, India.
ducks float
 on the royal lake
  in breach of edict.

Bird’s Eye [Senryū]

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the bird's head turns
 so one eye is upon me,
  something grows cold.

Agent of Entropy [Senryū]

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Photograph of cairns along the trail of the Taroko Gorge hike in Taiwan.
stone stacks line the trail:
 a thousand hikers suppress
 the urge to kick.

Icarus Tree [Senryū]

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a dead tree
 stands above the living;
  it didn’t pace itself.

Paper Beats Rock [Senryū]

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sapling grows in boulder,
 splitting it in twain;
  paper does beat rock.

Mid-stream Tree [Senryū]

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Tree that sits mid-stream
 is not your average tree.
  Stillness amid flow?