Best Haiku Senryu Poems

taken
                          from henhouse          
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witness to a crime
                           a chipmunk with a mouthful
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Inspired by Jan Allison:
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HAIKU
oft my morning call... 
birds in the warmer months... sing... 
my natural alarm... 

your haiku on my shoulder... 
your blackbird... softly chirps... 
morning... 

SENRYU
inspirational... 
your poetic prowess... 
many thank yous'...

HAIKU
orange beaked blackbird...
 dawns equivalent nightingale
 sing on Jenny wren 
 
SENRYU
inspirational
a haiku...

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~Autumnal Salutations~
(Haiku/ Senryu Suite)


This morning is great
The airs refreshing and cool
Autumn's almost here

Feeling of newness
There's some lightness around now
And the birds still roam

New days just starting
There's so much to do today
So many new plans

Thank God for today
Think of friends and family
For them send prayers

Wish them...

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~Autumnal Salutations~
(Haiku/ Senryu Suite)


This morning is great
The airs refreshing and cool
Autumn's almost here

Feeling of newness
There's some lightness around now
And the birds still roam

New days just starting
There's so much to do today
So many new plans

Thank God for today
Think of friends and family
For them send prayers

Wish them...

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ocean sounds
I pass a conch
from my ear to hers
 
monsoon dusk
the flood carrying
my shattered dreams


long rain
the homelessness
reopens the school


holding tight
to the hand of my child--
on the iPad
my mother talks and talks
of returning roles...

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haiku – senryu
JUST THINKING
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life... rife...
some strife...
it's reality

not all life is fun
get with reality
heed natures warnings

love thy neighbor
turn the other cheek
let peace prevail

no news today
for my peace of mind
how do others cope

rhetoric... why...
when quietness would suffice
have we forgot peace...

spring grass growing
near ready for cropping
ewes with early...

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She sits on my lap
She loves to purr after meals
I love to listen....

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True desert memories of my time spent in the Libyan desert. (Very early 60's)

The link re. the last senryu gives the details of how a young soldier lost his life by ignoring orders. Not a friend of mine, but we were comrades in arms.

HAIKU &...

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haiku loves nature 
senryu human nature...
tanka expounds both 
no matter how much I learn
I only know a whisper






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "Haiku, Senryu & Tanka Too" via wattpad.com...

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high blood pressure
                            a mosquito 
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wedding night                          
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A House Full of Cats

a house full of cats?
we learn to step carefully
we don’t have nine lives
our kitties are so trusting
lay down right in front of us

“pet me and feed me!”
(this is a silent command)
“and keep litter boxes clean
don’t disturb us while we sleep
always be...

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Mix maroon heart with amber ambition
Silver start swiftly amethyst affliction 
How do you heal when you’re blue broken 
Create a poetic meal to eat keep hope and

Stir in sandy sonnets from years in the rain
Sprinkle Senryu, haiku despite peach pain
Let cranberry couplets cream morbid thought
Sift...

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medical progress
climate conscious practicing
destructive boots march...

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