While haiku are typically written about nature, senryuu concern the thoughts and feelings of human beings. When writing senryuu, the goal is to enjoy oneself and entertain others. Finally, the senryuu is an unpunctuated form. If there are twenty or fewer characters and the rhythm is good, the poem works.

Let me stop here and pull out some of my old senryuu to share.



水仙がわたくし流に咲く途中

すいせん が　わたくしりゅう に　さく とちゅう

This daffodil
is just now blooming
like I am.


水仙は私の書道の雅号です。
(“Daffodil” is my nom de plume when I write calligraphy.)



よい言葉食べ放題の私です

よい ことば　たべほうだい の　わたし です

Good words
all-you-can-eat
that’s me.




年頭のはずむ抱負や白障子

ねんとう の　はずむ ほうふ や　しろ しょうじ

The new year-
unbridled resolutions
and clean screens.


That’s all for today.
Take care, everyone.

Ikuko