Senryu | willowdot21

TANKA TUESDAY POETRY CHALLENGES#TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry

17 Jan 2023 32 Comments

by willowdot21 in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka Tags: Fear, Japanese poetry, Senryu

Challenge No. 303, 1/17/23WELCOME TO #TANKATUESDAY!短歌火曜日

This week Colleen said:

“Did you know we have a haiku-like form that doesn’t use a kigo or kireji? It’s called a senryū. (I mostly use senryu, so you will see the word spelled both ways).

Senryū is a Japanese form similar to haiku: three lines with a s-l-s syllable count up to 17 syllables.” So Colleen has set us the task of writing a senryu or a set of senryu. Today I do not have much time so I am just writing one but it has my heart and soul in it.

My heart is pounding
Coursing blood does not warm me
Fear is primeval

#TANKA TUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 219, #SpecificForm.

30 Mar 2021 28 Comments

This is part of Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka. This week I chose a traditional Senryu.

SENRYU IN ENGLISH: Traditional 5/7/5. A Senryu is written about love, humor, a personal event, and should have irony present.

A beacon of light
You touched my heart and my soul.
You left way too soon

The above photo was taken by Alethea Kehas.

August Stanza 5,Gone.

05 Aug 2018 15 Comments

by willowdot21 in Poems Tags: August Stanza 5, gone, Jane Dougherty, Kat Myrman, Senryu

It is August and so Jane is doing : a chain of images each one suggested by the last word in the preceding poem. They’ll be short, a single image of just a few lines. It will be interesting to see where it ends up by the end of the month.

Kat will be doing short 3,4, or 5 line poems no syllable counts of rhymes, starting with the word ‘August’ on the first day. The last word of the poem will be the first word of day two’s poem, and so on until the end of the month.

Finally I shall be doing all types of poetry but each poem will start with the last word in the preceding poem.

Todays poem is a Senryu

Gone.

Gone the lost hopes of past years

Hope is beckoning

Reborn from the ash of fears.

Colleen Chesebro Weekly Haiku Challenge. 24/10/17

24 Oct 2017 19 Comments

by willowdot21 in Poems Tags: #Haibun, Cinquain, Colleen's weekly # poetry Challenge, Eerrie and Costume, HAIKU, Senryu, Tanka

This week for Colleen Chesebro of The Fairy Whisperers the challenge is to write a Haiku, Tanka, Haibun, Cinquain or Senryu using the words Eerie and Costume.