unknown cure
novel coronavirus
heavy reading
This senryū is my response to Carpe Diem
Exploring the Beauty of Haiku #1526 Juxtaposition,
with the challenge to write a haiku with juxtaposition,
or contrast in comparison – here the switch from virus to reading, playing
off of the term novel (or new). Senryū are often cynical or darkly humorous.
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
sacrificed for peace
brave souls now at rest, honored
sad summer meadow
This senryū is my response to
Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #140: Summer Meadow/Memorial Day.
Photo by Suzanne Walker from Pexels
poets know
when given a voice
words will speak
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little relief
for a thirsty poet
drought continues
Today is Day 13 of National/Global Poetry Writing Month,
and once again I’m down to the wire with a poem, another senryū.
It’s off-prompt, but I’m sharing it at napowrimo.net.
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
~ Chio standing beside a well, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi ~
one poem a day
without internet access
poet’s frustration
Bandwidth issues today meant more time battling technology than reading or writing.
At least it gave me a senryū.
Today is Day 5 of National/Global Poetry Writing Month.
While this poem is off-prompt, but I’m sharing it at napowrimo.net.
most needed
sweet rain, cleanse me
fall freely
This senryū, a bit of a kōan, perhaps, is my poem for Day 3
of National/Global Poetry Writing Month, I’m not motivated by the prompt at napowrimo.net, but I’m determined to keep going.
Image source: Honolulu Museum of Art – Rain in Miyajima, by Tsuchiya Köitsu
huddled in darkness
overwhelming fear of plague
no comfort in stars
This senryū is my response to Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday
#Poetry Challenge No. 170: #ThemePrompt,
where the theme is The Night Sky.
Image source: Yale University Art Gallery – Starry Night, by Jean-François Millet
in time of sickness
neighbors become more distant
fearful of disease
care given to those in need
while staying ever mindful
This tanka is my response to Poetics: Now I Can See…,
from Mish at dVerse Poets Pub.
Image source: ukiyo-e.org – Convalescence, by Mizuno Toshikata
words dancing,
singing, sighing, crying
poetry’s power
21 March 2020 ~ World Poetry Day
March arrives
denying winter
brings no change
I was well into my thirties before I accepted that my early March birthday is not in the spring.
I dislike winter that much, although I actually saw one budding tree while kayaking on Sunday, so Missouri does offer that over Western New York. (* click image *)
This short-form senryū is my response to Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday
#Poetry Challenge No. 167, #Poet’sChoice.
