Category Archives: Senryu

Day’s End Fail [Senryū]

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at day's end,
 the sun dips behind a tree,
  but fails to hide.

Funnel-web Spider [Senryū]

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funnel-web spider
 sprints out -- tremor-triggered --
  miffed to see hiker.

Full Moon [Senryū]

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a drunk staggers
 around the corner, and stares
  into the full moon.

Prickly [Senryū]

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a swallowtail
 lands on a thorny thistle,
  resting in comfort.

Late to the Hunt [Senryū]

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tardy deer hunter
 finds a deer grazing beside
  his hunter's stand.

Fēnggān [Senryū]

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the monk rode in
 on a bright-eyed tiger, and
  started hulling rice.

Bonsai [Haiku]

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a bonsai tree:
 gnarled & twisted, 
  yet so strong.

Sneaky Trees [Senryū]

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it seems trees sneak --
 in ones and twos -- up the hill,
  as the woods watch.

Poppy Mind [Haiku]

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wild poppies
 take my mind to a tragic
  poem learned in youth.

Magpie [Haiku]

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the magpie walks
 with head hung low,
  fooling no one.