Tag Archives: Senryū

Camo Fail [Senryū]

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the flowers hide
 in tall grass & sedges,
  but bees still find them.

Barbwire Bee-Eater [Senryū]

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a bee-eater lands
 on a barbed wire fence
  for a cozy rest.

Bovine Brothers? [Senryū]

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bovine brothers?
 or twins? or maybe I'm just
  seeing double?

Saint Chaos [Senryū]

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Kathmandu backstreet:
 at alley's end, grins Joker --
  global chaos face.

Bee-Eater [Senryū]

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bee-eater sits still --
 not searching, not flitting:
  worried of bee's plight?

Flower Divas [Haiku]

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flowers are rock stars:
 standing tall & proud before 
  the swaying grass.

Lily Pac-Man [Senryū]

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Pac-Men multiply:
 sought by too few upside-down 
  lily “ghosts.”

Frog Taunt [Senryū]

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a sunning frog
 taunts all predators
  to test their weight.

Witch & Skeleton [Free Verse / Senryū]

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Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre; Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1844)
PREMISE:
Princess Takiyasha
 summoned a skeleton to
  kill a samurai.

MORAL?:
"Don't bring swords
 to a giant skeleton-ghost 
  fight!"

CONCLUSION:
Yet, in settled dust,
 the world was less one
  Princess-witch.

Lonely Donkey [Senryū]

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solo donkey:
 so lonely that it might
  be human with us.