Senryū Stories

Japanese poetry is fascinating with it's format of syllables (5,7,5) it's actually amazing how little words can actually mean more.

When the well of poetry runs dry, and you think this is it, with the last hit of the imaginary pickaxe a new spring of poetry starts to trickle. This is the trickle from my all but dry well of poetry. Heartfelt, a collection of Haikus, Senryus and Trivenis.

Nine senryu and haiku contemplating youth, mine, maybe yours, please share your thoughts and comments welcome!

This collection of senryu captures fleeting moments that illuminate aspects of human nature. Senryu are similar to haiku in that both forms consist of three lines with five, seven, and then five syllables. The main difference is that haiku traditionally focus on nature while senryu focus on humans, although the boundary between the two forms is often blurry. Cover by @weirdpurplepanda

Random collection of Haiku and Senryū

A collection of poems that don't really follow a theme at all. Some might be sad, some might be happy, some might be inspiring, some might be funny, most of them are entirely subjective. Some are very short, there are several haiku, but groups of these will be bundled into one chapter. I'm not posting an entire chapter that is seventeen syllables long. One or two might be pretty long, depending on what you consider to be long. Enjoy. Chapter 3 may or may not warrant an M rating. You've been warned. But since it is far from the only poem in this it can hardly be called a central theme so I have removed the M rating from this story, EDIT: Upon reading some of the other poetry books on WattPad, I've decided that all new short poems will be posted as separate chapters but groups of these short chapters will all be posted on the same day. (It should be noted that I use Canadian spelling so things like color and gray will be spelled colour and grey. There's lots of these, but they aren't spelling mistakes)

What can be explained is not poetry. ~ William Butler Yeats Cover design by @ubiquitously

A book containing different forms of poetry and prose. :) Poetry#44 on 11th Dec 2014 :)

The inspiration for this little spring poem came from the pleasure that I derive from observing the birds in my garden as spring approaches. I consider them my family.

It is my new book with senryū poems , that I started doing recently. Thank you for your attention!

Reflections and observations on life, its meaning and purpose. Poetic musings concerning the nature of reality.

A heartfelt, therapeutic and topical poem about freedom

A compilation of poetry. Book 1

Red Square fanfare- sport without politics- FIFA World Cup Goaaaaaaaaal!!!

a place for all that japanese poetry i love so much and plan to write lots of 221017 - (and suddenly this is not only a japanese poetry collection anymore)

'haikus can be weird sometimes they dont make much sense bananas are blue' a collection of my haikus and senryus haiku - poems with 17 syllables in a 5/7/5 pattern about nature senryu - a haiku that revolves around people instead of nature please give me feedback on my haikus, im not that good and would love others opinions on how to improve my poetry

This is a first collection of my micropoems. (Currently I have collected just over 50 of them here, but this is still work in progress and I will add some more in the future!) Some of these poems, but not all, are haiku or senryu-like (although I don't stick to the classic 5-7-5 format, here juxtaposition is more important to me). Some are more like quotes. And some are more poetic than others. But they all have one thing in common: they are short. (The shortest consists of just one word and a punctuation mark after it; maybe you will read it...)

Short Poems and Images