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Best Senryu Poems

Below are the all-time best Senryu poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of senryu poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Senryu- In My Red Dream
a red butterfly
stirred me from my crimson sheets-
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Categories: butterfly, dream,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Darkness Slithers In-Senryu



              Darkness slithers in.
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Categories: imagery, night,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Love Is Free
a puppet dances

   to its own merry tune

    no strings attached

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[Inspired by Jan Allison’s 
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Categories: freedom, love,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Always Together
Two peas in a pod
One still on Earth, One with God
Together Always
Inspired By Nathan Leccese"s Contest "Two Peas In A Pod"
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Categories: husband, love, wife
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Winds of Change
sweet zephyr breezes 
jasmine empress butterflies 
rainbows in our sky

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: change, peace,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Full Moon On Christmas
Full moon on Christmas
Werewolf chasing Santa's sleigh --
   A howling good time




Not for any contest.  Just wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and...

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Categories: christmas,
Form: Senryu
Optic Mystic
there is a bright side
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Categories: dark, introspection, light,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Existence
awkwardly I dance
because I have two left feet
hard to find partner

I watch you dancing
it seems you have two right feet
let us share some shoes

will you...

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Categories: beauty, dance, happiness, love,
Form: Senryu
Carved On a Willow
carved on a willow
our love growing out of reach...

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Categories: loss, love, nostalgia, sad,
Form: Senryu
Unmedicated
symptom spectrum script
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Categories: fear, mental illness, science,
Form: Senryu
My Maa Touches My Poems
My aged mother
she can't understand English...
feels my poems by touch

she touches the words
her frail fingers caressing...
smile in wrinkled face

'write a poem for me'--
'all the poems...

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© Kash Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: motherinspirational, poems,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Climate Change
warmth from His presence

thaws the coldest heart of stone-

winter becomes spring



 Brian Strand | Year Posted 2010...

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Categories: christian,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Broken
his baby daughter
tossed aside like a rag doll
dad wanted a son

my mother told him
that I was ‘the next best thing’
at least she loved me!

always second...

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Categories: feelings, growing up, me,
Form: Senryu
Golden Flowerworks
sun rise all day long
gold flowerworks exploding
van goghs sunflowers...

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Categories: beautiful, flower,
Form: Senryu
Oh To Have the Balls
to tell you the truth

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Categories: angst, gender,
Form: Senryu

Book: Reflection on the Important Things