Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 164 #SynonymsOnly

Love & Harmony were the prompt words this week.

For love I went for lust and passion! For harmony I chose balance and peacefully.

What are Haiku, Senryu and Tanka?

Remember: Senryu poems make the human, not the world around them, the subject of their creative endeavor. Humor and sarcasm are two of the most favorable elements in a Senryu and should deal with the human condition. Think about sexual matters, family relations, religion, politics, and anything that touches on the pain we experience through sorrow, prejudice, oppression, anger, and frustration. Senryu do not deal in sentimentality.

 

I haven’t written any Senryu before so here goes… I’ve written three…

 

Lusty lips

Pouted

The Viagra

Swallowed

Peacefully

Downed in one

 

His lust overwhelmed

He was so fit

Did the splits

Balanced on one leg

 

Our mismatched passion

Made me quiet

Depleted

My balance

Broken

 

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Well, that was a strange one! The Senryu encouraged me to play with words to come up with some unusual results!

 

 

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  1. So Senryu are written in 3 lines: 5/7/5, or 3/5/3, or 2/3/2, Sis. They are like a Haiku, but about human nature, not the natural world. Were you thinking of the Gogyohka? That is five lines, written in phrases as long as a breath. <3

      1. Senryu are 17 syllables, 11 syllables, or 7 syllables long. Usually you write in the 3 lines, however… but, some poets write the way you did. It’s confusing though because you used five lines which is a Tanka or a Gogyohka. For the challenge, I try to stick to the basic forms. That doesn’t mean that you can’t write like this in your books or on your blog. Explanations are always helpful. <3

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